![]() ![]() The disappearance of the perished and appearance of ghostly spaces are represented in the poetic storytelling of Dung Kai-cheung’s Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City, while excerpts from Shih Shu-ching’s literary masterpiece, City of the Queen: A Novel of Colonial Hong Kong, vividly portray the interwoven social relations and colonial structures during the time of plague. The essay by Costinas and Guerrero introduces the many layers and tentacles of the project. Scholars, artists, novelists, and journalists depart from Hong Kong’s history of epidemic-the most recent being the SARS outbreak of 2003, shortly followed by the tragic death of pan-Asian pop icon Leslie Cheung, and tackle the galvanizing power and the varied perceptions of contagion in the context of lingering histories, myths, anxieties, and memories across geographies. SARS, Leslie and the Hong Kong history, curated by Cosmin Costinas and Inti Guerrero, and presented at Para Site in 2013, and subsequently at TheCube Project Space in Taipei, Arko Art Center in Seoul and Kadist Art Foundation and The Lab in San Francisco.Ī Journal of the Plague Year critically analyzes historical and contemporary imaginations and politics of fear in the face of disease and the specter of contamination in society and culture. ![]() This publication, co-published with Sternberg Press and designed by Project Projects, New York, is based on the highly acclaimed exhibition A Journal of the Plague Year. ![]()
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