Bilingual creation in Chinese and Spanish.
The latest publications for 2024 from the art bookstore Limestone Books in Maastricht .
If today we imagine an art residency as a temporary island made up of a group of strangers who do not know each other, how can these strangers make this intermediary period of temporary residence on the island meaningful, and even continue to maintain an archipelago community that is not bound by geographical boundaries after leaving the island?
Archipelago Empathy explores how art residencies create spaces for different island nations to perceive each other’s culture, history and geopolitics.
The exhibition was conceived and curated by Yornel J. Martínez Elías, a Cuban artist-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands from 2022 to 2023, and Framer Framed researcher Hsin-Chieh Lee, with Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-kai invited to collaborate.
Archipelago Empathy interweaves visual materials, conversations and stories created by participants in different times and spaces, recording the process of encounters and intersections between different islands/languages due to artistic residencies, and exploring how literature connects different worlds and how publishing practices create new connections. "Archipelago Empathy" is bilingual in Chinese and Spanish, and was designed by Limestone Books co-founder and designer Chen Zhen.
Participant Profile
Huang Chongkai｜
From Yunlin, Taiwan. novelist. Graduated from the Department of History at National Taiwan University. He has written the novels New Treasure Island, Bungeishunju, Pornographic Novel, The Broken Man, Further Than Pluto, Boot Legs, and Alphabets A~Z (co-authored).
Yornel J. Martínez Elías｜
Graduated from the Havana Higher School of Art in 2007, he focuses on the gaps between language systems and their concepts, the boundaries of different visual media and alternative exhibition forms. His creations mostly take place in public spaces, such as museums, libraries and archives, and he often collaborates with people from other disciplines to explore the relationship between personal practice and discourse in other disciplines. He will be in residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands from 2022 to 2023.
Li Xinjie｜
Cultural worker. Graduated from the Department of Anthropology at National Taiwan University, she is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, focusing on the interaction between art residency and its practice and postcolonial theory, feminism and environmental humanism. As a researcher at the Dutch art and cultural space Framer Framed, he is responsible for art residency and cross-institutional collaboration and curatorial projects. He is a member of the Lightbox Photography Library, co-founder of Limestone Bookstore in Maastricht and co-founder of Morning Sickness Audiovisual Variety Co., Ltd.
Chen Zhen｜
Designer, co-founder of Limestone Bookstore. Graduated from Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands in 2016. Since 2018, he has been conducting a one-year residency program at Jan van Eyck Academie in the Netherlands. The 2020 book creation "Amsterdam Lunch" was selected as "The Best Dutch Book Designs" in 2019 and will be exhibited at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in the fall.
Book Catalog
- Preface / Li Xinjie
- Familiar Strangers, Life Between Islands / Yornel Martínez x Li Xinjie
- Post-colonial Mirror - Taiwan-Cuba exchange under magical realism / Yornel Martínez x Huang Chongkai
- What are you looking for / Huang Chongkai
- Copyright Page
Format: 10x14 cm Number of pages: 128 pages Year: 2024
Language: Chinese, Spanish Publisher: Framer Framed, Jan van Eyck Academie