Dokyu: Intersections of History, Creative Writing, and Arts Practice
I am a lead collaborator in DOKYU, a collective of artists, historians, writers, and curators who reconsider what it means both to document and to work with documents.
Spanning multiple locations of research including Singapore, the Philippines, Japan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and Switzerland, Dokyu’s participants draw from varied fields such as documentary poetics, environmental and community-based art and history practices, performance art, and painting, among others, in order to expand the ways in which we approach, understand, and interact with historical documents.
DOKYU aims to establish an experimental space that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, transforms artistic and scholarly methodology, and informs the ways the interdisciplinary in the humanities is both practiced and taught.
For the most recent news, check out the project’s public interface, which currently features a brief video documentation of our December 2024 onsite collaboration at MOCA Hishio Annex, Shodoshima, Japan.
We’re currently working on an edited collection documenting that exhibition, coming out in late 2026 from Setouchibito Press. We’re excited that the volume will be their first bilingual Japanese-English edition.
In December 2023, I edited a dossier for ASAP/Journal on the project, including a collective interview and several collaborative artworks, and a companion cluster of materials online at ASAP/Review.
