Asymmetry’s Resources emerge from our network’s research, programmes, and collaborations, giving shape to writing, dialogue, and archival material. Grounded in Chinese and Sinophone scholarship, it gathers event recordings, interviews, essays, and publications by fellows, scholars, and invited experts. The platform opens alternative pathways for knowledge-making, foregrounding voices often marginalised in dominant art discourse and inviting readers to trace new connections and challenge inherited narratives.

Reading ListAsymmetry29.07.2025Summer Reading List – Team’s Pick
PublicationAsymmetry24.07.2025Drifting Backpack: to Pass Is to Preserve2025 Librarians-in-Residencete editions
InterviewChisenhale Gallery17.06.2025Three Questions2025 Curatorial Research FellowZhejun Gao
InterviewYDP21.05.2025YDP – A New Chapter: A Conversation Between Yan Du and Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London08.05.2025The ‘Demon’ Traverses the () While I Am Sleeping2022 PhD ScholarYuhang Zhang
EssayGoldsmiths, University of London15.01.2025How to People a Place2023 PhD ScholarJason Wee
InterviewThe Courtauld Institute of Art06.12.2024Three Questions2024 Postdoctoral FellowYayu Zheng
InterviewTate Modern28.11.2024Three QuestionsCurator, International ArtAlvin Li
InterviewAsymmetry13.11.2024Three QuestionsLi Jia and Yin Aiwen
InterviewTate Modern09.10.2024Three QuestionsAdjunct Curator, Asia PacificHera Chan
EssayChisenhale Gallery25.09.2024A Diachronic Record2023 Curatorial Research FellowRachel Be-Yun Wang
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London31.08.2024Encountering Black Studies2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
PublicationAsymmetry05.07.2024Do It Yourself: From Zine to Life – Recent Acquisitions in July2024 Librarian-in-ResidenceYe Funa
PublicationAsymmetry21.06.2024Second Love Letter: Across the Sea, Connecting Pasts and Futures of Self-publishing2024 Librarian-in-Residence
PublicationAsymmetry13.06.2024Books Do Not Respect Originality: Rethinking Copying and Creativity – Recent Acquisitions in June2024 Librarian-in-ResidenceYe Funa
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London24.05.2024Devil's Plot: Notes ‘Anterior’ to Cosmos Cinema – 14th Shanghai Biennale2022 PhD ScholarYuhang Zhang
PublicationAsymmetry14.05.2024First Love Letter: The Anartist Book ClubEpistolary series by Ye Funa and Collaborators
EssayWhitechapel Gallery08.03.2024Bitterness & Wit2023 Curatorial Fellow Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London06.03.2024Undesirable2023 PhD ScholarJason Wee
PublicationAsymmetry22.02.2024Recent Acquisitions in February2023 Librarians-in-ResidenceAlvin Li and Chang Yuchen
JournalChisenhale Gallery14.12.2023Some Meandering Thoughts Around the Visuality of Collections Prompted by ‘the Hidden Conference’2023 Curatorial Research FellowRachel Be-Yun Wang
InterviewGoldsmiths, University of London06.12.2023Three QuestionsWeitian Liu and Jason Wee
JournalThe Courtauld Institute of Art02.11.2023A Brief Encounter With ‘Plants’2022 Postdoctoral FellowFeixuan Xu
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London21.09.2023Notes on ‘Advanced Practices’2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
PublicationAsymmetry31.08.2023Recent Acquisitions in July2023 Librarians-in-ResidenceAlvin Li and Chang Yuchen
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London24.08.2023An Unsolved Murder Case Is Bad Abstraction2022 PhD ScholarYuhang Zhang
InterviewWhitechapel Gallery, Chisenhale Gallery04.08.2023Three QuestionsEugene Yiu Nam Cheung and Rachel Be-Yun Wang
EssayGoldsmiths, University of London31.05.2023The Rotting World of ‘Decision to Leave’2022 PhD ScholarYuhang Zhang
PublicationAsymmetry19.05.2023Recent Acquisitions in May2024 Librarian-in-ResidenceAlvin Li and Chang Yuchen
PublicationAsymmetry19.05.2023April Letter: Untitled2023 Librarians-in-ResidenceAlvin Li and Chang Yuchen
PublicationAsymmetry19.05.2023May Letter: Paging the Librar(ies), in FragmentsLetters from Alvin Li and Chang Yuchen
PublicationAsymmetry15.04.2023Recent Acquisitions in March2023 Librarians-in-ResidenceAlvin Li and Chang Yuchen
JournalThe Courtauld Institute of Art30.03.2023Unknotting and Rewinding the Threads2022 Postdoctoral FellowFeixuan Xu
InterviewGoldsmiths, University of London11.01.2023Three Questions2022 PhD ScholarYuhang Zhang
InterviewThe Courtauld Institute of Art08.12.2022Three Questions2022 Postdoctoral FellowFeixuan Xu
EssayWhitechapel Gallery22.11.2022How Street Dance Can Inspire Art Museums2022 Curatorial FellowErin Li
JournalWhitechapel Gallery28.10.2022Research Trip: Alternative Ways to Contemporaneity2022 Curatorial FellowErin Li
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London26.10.2022In the Wake of Documenta Fifteen2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
EssayChisenhale Gallery06.09.2022Could the Global Artworld Afford Diversity?2021 Curatorial Writing FellowYu’an Huang
InterviewWhitechapel Gallery29.07.2022Three QuestionsCuratorial FellowErin Li
EssayWhitechapel Gallery22.06.2022What Is the ‘Chinese Art Market’?2021 Curatorial FellowZoe Diao
JournalGoldsmiths, University of London05.05.2022Studying at Goldsmiths2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
JournalWhitechapel Gallery20.04.2022Visiting the Archives2021 Curatorial FellowZoe Diao
EssayGoldsmiths, University of London01.04.2022Crossing Over: Western and Chinese Contemporary Art2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
JournalChisenhale Gallery17.03.2022Approaching Methodologies 2021 Curatorial Writing FellowYu’an Huang
JournalWhitechapel Gallery09.03.2022Reflections on Archival Research2021 Curatorial FellowZoe Diao
JournalChisenhale Gallery22.02.2022Kua 跨 Crossing Beyond2021 Curatorial Writing FellowYu’an Huang
InterviewGoldsmiths, University of London14.02.2022Three Questions2021 PhD ScholarWeitian Liu
EssayWhitechapel Gallery07.02.2022Crossroads of Art Worlds: Notes on Galleries in the Groove – Three Visionary Dealers, 1960s–80s2021 Curatorial FellowZoe Diao
JournalChisenhale Gallery23.11.2021Three Questions2021 Curatorial Writing FellowYu’an Huang
InterviewWhitechapel Gallery03.11.2021Three Questions2021 Curatorial FellowZoe Diao
JournalWhitechapel Gallery20.10.2021Remote Affinity: Working Together From a Distance2021 Curatorial Writing FellowHang Li
InterviewChisenhale Gallery13.06.2021Three Questions2021 Curatorial Writing FellowHang Li
InterviewAsymmetry20.10.2020Launch NotesFrom the directors Yan Du & Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt
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