Selected Writing

Selected Writing

Art and Architecture

2026

Sasaoka Yuriko at Shiga Museum of Art, Japan

Frieze

Artistic labour and displaced agency

“La Moustache” curated by Jordan Stein at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Spike Art Magazine

Paranoid reading, known unknowns, Conceptual art

2025

Meet Me at SOGO

CONG

Aesthetic labour, weeb culture, capitalist modernity and its built environment

House M in Beijing by Atelier About Architecture (PDF)

The Architectural Review

Private wealth, anti-McMansion, middle class problems

Revisit: Bridge House in Fujian by Li Xiaodong Atelier

The Architectural Review

Is top-down rural development necessary?

Bricolage Houses in Shenzhen by ARCity Office

The Architectural Review

Urban-rural land reform, development models, “community art” for the working class

Interview with Taro Masushio at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Spike Art Magazine

Bricolage, anti-visibility, meaning-making

2024

Art Labor at Para Site, Hong Kong

Stir World

Modernisation, anthropology, found forms

Doris Guo at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong

Spike Art Magazine

Mother-daughter, mystery, genres

2021

Time of Death

Spike Art Magazine

Museum labour, exhibition production, institutional critique

Literary and Cultural Criticism

2026

In which the author Yi-Ling Liu speaks about The Wall Dancers

The Baffler

2023

Two Anglophone memoirs about Hong Kong

The Baffler

2021

A tech travelogue set in rural China obfuscates material conditions

The Baffler

In which the Picun poet Xiaohai reviews Cao Fei’s solo exhibition at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art

Chaoyang Trap

2020

Diaries of the Wuhan Covid lockdown

The Nation

Watching Hong Kong cop movies after nine months of police brutality

The Nation

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