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Writing as Infrastructure: Draft Mode

Start
Jun 20, 2025
End
Jul 10, 2025

Venue

10B, Wing Wah Industrial Building
Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Visual Design: Can Yang｜平面設計：楊燦

‘Writing as Infrastructure: Draft Mode’ is a participatory prelude to ‘Writing as Infrastructure: Workshops for Arts Professionals’, offering a glimpse into the programme’s emerging lines of inquiry. Taking place before the closed-door workshops begin, this space gathers selected books, references, and fragments that sketch the contours of conversations to come.

Rather than presenting a finished argument or curated display, ‘Draft Mode’ foregrounds early forms—concepts, prompts, and marginalia—that participants may take up, adapt, or discard. The public is invited to engage with these materials, offering an entry point into the collective thinking and experimentation that will unfold throughout the programme.

On selected days (28 Jun, 5 Jul, 10 Jul), several ‘radical administrators’ of Display Distribute, an artist and publishing collective, will intervene in the Workshops’ ongoing draft as administrators-in-residence, contributing annotations and provoking otherwise resonances that unsettle fixed ideas of knowledge, authorship, and infrastructure.

Spatial Design by Angela Pang Ho Ho.

About

Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now-and-again exhibition space, and sometimes shop operated by a roving cast of conceptual shop girls and co-conspirators. A port region extending out of ‘the world’s factory’—the Pearl River Delta is seen as both a facilitator and processor, a microcosm of broader global trends that also bears witness to the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalisation. Documenting the ad-hoc arrangements and juxtaposing micro- and macro-interactions rapidly transforming the social and material landscape, Display Distribute undertakes collaborative research projects that trace these flows and fissures of ongoing movement in order to investigate otherwise possibilities for networked forms of production. These activities include long-term initiatives such as the artist-run distribution service LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research and archival unit The Shanzhai Lyric, the catalogue-cum-readers’ digest publication『CATALOGUE』and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.