Including three collaborative posters with artists Cenga Tse, Rice + Lumpy and Iammelancholy, reading corner and mini-discussion on QRL’s holdings (March 30), talk with Connie Chan on the networks forged through 90s queer zines and newsletters (March 31), and our friend Veronica Sanchis of Foto Féminas who we invited to create a mobile human library.
Discussion: Visualizing Queer Culture in Hong Kong and Taipei with Dr. Chi Ta-wei and Kaitlin Chan, January 31, 2020. Open Library: February 1 – 2, 2020.
QRL English/Cantonese queer lexicon workshop, with venue support from The Gamut Project and Studio 94, and food from Table of Two Cities, May 1, 2019.
QRL Exhibition including 1990s Hong Kong zines from the collection of Connie Chan. In partnership with Eaton Workshop as part of the Human/Progress Festival, November 17, 2018 – January 7, 2019.
QRL is grateful to participate in the group exhibition WO-MEN at the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco. Check out the online exhibition, visit QRL’s online book guide here, and check out the online Queer Reads Lexicon. Our collaborators include production lead and curator J. Wu, print lexicon designer Tiff Chan and digital lexicon designer Winnie Yoe.
QRL participating in RUB – Now Wave and Graphic Activism at Flux Factory, New York, November 23 – December 15, 2019.
QRL photobook display and dialogue with Gabriel Cheung of Small Potatoes Press, moderated by Eugene from Maekan as part of 8edroom Zine Club, organized by Bedroom and 8-Ball Community, February 23 – 25, 2019.
QRL pop-up library at the launch of Ourself 我哋 Zine, a new zine for queer voices in Hong Kong, at Nose in the Books 打書釘, Causeway Bay. December 12, 2020.
We hosted an online QRL Show & Tell with queer Asian artists amanda wan, Tray Ma, and Phebe Ferrer for Vancouver Art Book Month, on October 22, 2020.
QRL with Asia Art Archive at Isla de Ediciones of arteBA art fair in Buenos Aires, 11 – 14 April, 2019. Thanks to John Tain.
QRL with ZINE COOP at Kitakagaya Flea & Asia Book Market, Osaka, May 25 – 26, 2019. In dialogue with Takaki-san of IN/SECTS on May 25, 4-5pm.
QRL with ZINE COOP at Taipei Art Book Fair, Talk on Sustaining Creative Partnerships in Independent Publishing, October 18 – 20, 2019.
