Decolonizing Far and Near Newsletter No. 9 – Meridional Swarm: An Invitation to Speculative Geography from the ‘South’

About the Book

FAR–NEAR is a curated cross-cultural book series broadening perspectives of Asia through image, person, idea and history to unlearn the inherent dominative mode.

The Asian continent and its people have often been expressed through the lens of a foreign eye–painted as “the other” to a Western audience. Extending beyond the Far East, FAR–NEAR features voices from Japan to Iran and just about everywhere in between.

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We are an entirely self-funded platform operating without advertising or external investments. Our founder commits to a personal financial deficit each year with our core team working diligently outside of their day jobs to deliver to our community the highest quality annually-printed books, online editorials, anti-racism newsletters, charitable fundraisers, music playlists and social media. While we do our best to respect, fund and compensate our collaborators, whether through copies of the book, production or some financial support, please consider this before submitting work or reaching out to us. You can support us by purchasing our books, subscribing to our book club and volunteering or sending donations to @far-near on Venmo. We appreciate your consideration and contribution!

Core Team

Founder and Editor-in-Chief

Lulu Yao Gioiello

Senior Editor

Ariana King

Contributing Editor & Illustrator

Urara Muramatsu

West Coast Editor

Thai Lu

Poetry Editor

Vivien Lee

Featured Artists

Zhang Huan
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Taysir Batniji
Nick Sethi

Shirin Neshat
Takashi Homma
9m88
Wednesday Campanella

Fish Zhang
Shintaro Sakamoto
Fatima Al Qadiri
AC-bu

Eikoh Hosoe
Pixy Liao
The Beijing Opera
Porochista Khakpour

Alex Zhang Hungtai
Tatsumi Hijikata
Slavs and Tatars
Ayse Erkemen

Hitoshi Fugo
Queer Reads Library

Contributors

Alexander Anufriev
Hripsime & Serko Artinian
Keisuke Asano
Anum Asi
Gary Bardizbanian
Kerem Ozan Bayraktar
Paul Bui
Kee Byung-keun
Angela Carbone
Century Contemporary Dance Company
Chiao Chen
Mary Chen
Tiffany Jaeyeon Chen
Alex Huanfa Cheng
Jennifer Cheng
Thaddé Comar
Commission
Emman Debattista

Jenny Dorsey
Yuri Eury
Brian Foo
Anna Furman
Chris Habana
Riya Hamid
Keenan Havens
Ziyu He
Kim Ho
Weishan Hu
Nhu Xuan Hua
Miyuki Hyodo
Momo Ikeda
Pouran Jinchi
Maazin Kamal
Olive Kimoto
Cynthia Koppe
Hassan Kurbanbaev

Kenneth Lam
Alex Lee
Coral Lee
Peter Ash Lee
Vivien Lee
Won Woo Lee
Kamin Lertchaiprasert
Richard Licha
Ai Lin
Angela Lin
Johnson Lui
Sayaka Maruyama
Dan McMahon
Sara Mon
Joji Nakamura
Nicole Ngai
Lucka Ngo
Den Niwa

Ciana Nkuruh
Nonaka Hill Gallery
Lindsey Okubo
Maryam Omidi
Juri Onuki
Mika Orotea
Yu Peng
Ayesha Raees
Sahrish Rahman
James J Robinson
Ivan Salinero
Mona Saudi
Iise Seoul
Richie Shazam
Kim Shui
Dorothy Sing Zhang
Junshin Soga
Michal Solarski

Ashley Soong
Apoorva Tadepalli
Ayae Takisa
Hiroshi Takizawa
Richie Talboy
Carlos Runcie Tanaka
Róisín Tapponi
Victor Tate
Ma Thanegi
Camily Tsai
David Ai Wang
Us Warman
Winson Brooklyn
Zhi Wei
Qin Xione
Alice Yang
Yuan Yao

Stockists

America

New York

2 Bridges Music Arts
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery
Chop Suey Club
Office Newsstand (Canal Street Market)
Printed Matter
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Brooklyn

Artbook at MoMA PS1
McNally Jackson Books
Spoonbill & Sugartown
Quimby’s Bookstore
Greenlight Bookstore
Head Hi

Ashya

Chicago
Quimby’s Chicago

San Francisco
Heath Newsstand

Los Angeles

Baboshop

Ontario
Synonym Bookshop

Toronto
Art Metropole

Asia

Seoul
Datz Press
Warped Shop

Tokyo
On Sundays (Watari-um Museum of Art)
Home Planet

Taipei
Bleu + Book

Dubai
The Third Line Gallery
Fully Booked

Europe

Paris

Librairie Yvon Lambert

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