Looking Out: Looking In
Commissioned to document Looking Out: Looking In, a series of creative workshops and activities programmed by Studio Voltaire’s artist-in-residence Beatrix Pang.
Role: photography
Looking Out: Looking In references the ways in which we look out for one another and open ourselves up when engaging within communities, whilst looking in is also necessary for self-reflection and caring for ourselves.
Over the weekend, attendees were invited to browse zines, learn about the power and politics of independent publishing, and join in creative activities.
Building upon an ongoing project Queer Reads Lexicon, Queer Reads Library hosted a zine-making workshop to explore queer queerness in the context of languages, with a primary focus on Cantonese and Mandarin.
As words being used, circulated and invented by queer people are evidence of their lives, communication and recognition of each other, the project focuses on archiving queer threads from past to present, by exploring and documenting how Chinese-speaking people in diverse geographic regions, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, China and the diaspora, have started their own dialects and queer language.
Beatrix Pang’s early practice revolved around still/moving images, performance and printed medium. After completing education in art photography and fundamental design in Hong Kong and Scandinavia, Pang founded Small Tune Press on their own in 2011, which focused on producing artists’ books and zines in Hong Kong. A few years later, Pang co-founded ZINE COOP and Queer Reads Library. The former is a platform to promote Hong Kong zine culture, the latter is a mobile library creating space for queer inclusivity and visibility in Hong Kong and Asian diaspora communities.
