Please join us for the launch of two zines from Try Try Zine Residency 2025: A mapping box of getting lost by Chen Mo, and Spirit of Float by Jane Cheung Yan Yi.
This year’s Try Try Zine residents invite participants to re-encounter navigation and dive for oceanic myths through a workshop and lecture performance. Chen Mo packs us mini box-set zines to digest during a wandering tour through the MTR’s subterranean spaces. Jane Cheung Yan Yi anchors the transient breaths of remaining female fishers in Hong Kong to the ports of the Oscar Ho and Ha Bik Chuen archives.
We will travel lightly, trusting our senses, and surrender to the tide of the sea. Please join us, we guarantee surprises.
Drifting tour and zine workshop with Chen Mo’s A mapping box of getting lost
CCG Library, Asia Art Archive and MTR Island Line
Language: English
Endless tools exist to prevent us from getting lost—maps, apps, signs—all promising certainty, efficiency, and the shortest path from A to B. But for a commuter in this relentless city, what if navigation could mean something else? Departing from observations, thoughts, and questions drawn from her daily commute through subterranean MTR spaces, Chen’s zine, A mapping box of getting lost, is a series of map boxes that each serve as a portal—an invitation—to find fragments of imagination hidden in transit. These boxes interact with readers to re-encounter their daily commuting journey, and to mobilise their senses in the seemingly homogeneous space and the passive stillness of being inside a moving train.
The workshop begins with a tour along the MTR Island Line, followed by a hands-on session where participants create their own mapping box of getting lost. Un-navigating the signs and arrows we tend to follow habitually, the zines invite readers to journey along with commuting: in detours, disoriented paths, and imagined routes; perhaps to wander somewhere stranger. In surrendering to the possibility of getting lost, might we find alternative ways of moving, sensing, and being in this city?
Limited to 10 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Free and open to the public with registration.
Spirit of Float Lecture Performance by Jane Cheung Yan Yi
Sun, 29 Jun 2025, 2–4pm
CCG Library, Asia Art Archive
Language: Cantonese
If identity is an intangible entity, can it be constructed through bodily sensations? What kind of myth do you choose to believe in?
Spirit of Float is a mythological literary zine where Cheung explores hidden pathways of Hong Kong identity through imagining the awareness of buoyancy in water. During her residency, she “fished out” archival materials related to female fishers from the Oscar Ho and Ha Bik Chuen Archives, cultivating various saltwater stories.
In this lecture performance, Cheung narrates these stories and invites participants to reflect together: Is it possible for us to return to water from land?
Limited to 10 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Free and open to the public with registration.
