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Daniel Arsham & Hajime Sorayama Sculpture: Holding Hands (2019)

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From my series ‘Chiquito’

Found photography and reused fruit stickers from South and Central America, 2023

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Jiran Xia autumn/winter 2022

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Nintendo Game Boy Color Magazine Ad (2001) Dazed & Confused Magazine, Issue 77

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Hadi Rahnaward: 'Fragile Balance' (2023) rug sculpture created with matches

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Arctic White for Vogue Magazine (1964) Photography: John Cowan

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This is so wholesome

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“My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay” is a mockumentary project made to imagine a world where Asian bodies navigate as cyborgs in a hegemonic human society. It explores the complex state of being cyborgs and asian — fluid, transgressive, marginalized but also stereotyped as unemotional and inhuman. In A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century, Donna Haraway once suggested that “'women of color' might be understood as a cyborg identity, a potent subjectivity synthesized from fusions of outsider identities''. Cyborg myth for Haraway is about “transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities which progressive people might explore as one part of needed political work”. Asian bodies especially, in the media and in general are often seen as robotic, intelligent but less human. Different from Orientalism, the Techno-Orientalism found in many speculative fiction films and books, such as Blade Runner, imagines the future to be hypo technological cities resembling Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and sexualized, dehumanized asian looking cyborgs. The series is an attempt to create a narrative of cyborgs of our own: My friends are cyborgs, but that’s okay. It is to envision a change of the prevalent binary view, reconstructing the boundaries of daily life and to create a dangerously happy ever after posthuman world for cyborgs.

so enamored by this photo project by ramona jingru wang

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top - Steve Messam: Pointed (2017) bottom - Slow Studio: Peace (2016)

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Marie Claire Korea, December 2022 Photography: Songyi Yoon

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Peng Chang for Vogue Taiwan (2022) Photography: Kuo Huan Kao

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i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point

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via lauramariecieplik on instagram

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Feb-22

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