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Ms. PAPERBRIDGEEE and Ms. PORTABLE are the courier psyches of LIGHT LOGISTICS, the artist-run delivery unit of Display Distribute. As a support to the sociopolitical engagements of independent publishing from East and Southeast Asia, their dispatches most often contain the counter-hegemonic knowledges and practices carried by the Display Distribute distro. Not independent from the ebbs of the biopolitically diseased era, however, it appears that the books and bodies of PAPERBRIDGEEE and PORTABLE will remain quite stationary for some time. To enrich their idleness, they decide to embark upon an internal reflection of their work over the last years by literally opening up boxes, reading together, and allowing the blown waters of inefficiency to reevaluate other forms of movement under the shadows of global infrastructure.
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A performance dialogue 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒻𝒾𝓃ℯ 𝒸ℴ𝓂𝓅𝒶𝓃𝓎 ℴ𝒻 Aliens in Green, a.pass, Ensad Lab, Feral Atlas, Garnet Hertz, Jatiwangi Art Factory, Eleni Kamma, The Otolith Group, Olu Taiwo, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Kate Rich and the work group Material Practices (Leiden University, Willem de Kooning Academy, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Waag Society, West Den Haag and associated researchers Anja Groten, Pia Louwerens and Dani Ploeger).
Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space and sometimes shop founded in Kowloon, 2013. Seeping via the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalisation into other subaltern networks and grammars, recent activities include the experimental infrastructure Light Logistics, poetic research and archival unit Shanzhai Lyric and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.
The performance dialogue for Making Matters is carried out by Display Distribute LIGHT LOGISTICIANS Sonia Cheng and Elaine W. Ho with the support of Hong Kong Community Radio. The Making Matters Symposium took place in Rotterdam and online from 19-21 November 2020 in collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut, with additional support from HKCR. For more information, visit: www.making-matters.nl