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The Future Is Edible
Seeking escape from AI and a return to real life, a new wave of avant-garde artists is throwing sensory dinner parties. What do they reveal about the…
Sep 22
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Patrick Kho
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A Sperm Race-cum-Party for the World’s Least Fertile Economy
In which a city spending billions to increase its birth rate takes fertility advice from a man named “Dick Gay.”
Aug 18
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Patrick Kho
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10
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The New Hong Kong Underground
First-person reporting from inside the city's next generation of culture
Published on Welcome Magazine
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Aug 12
Mapping the International Internet Gothic
Reporting from a Nu China club night: “Goth” is shedding old definitions, reshaping across borders into an emerging “alt” internet aesthetic. We can’t…
Jul 21
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Patrick Kho
25
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Inside Shanghai’s Gamer Nightclub
A gonzo-style review of INS Land, Shanghai’s famous six-story nightclub. (And the rise of gamer nightlife?)
Jun 30
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Patrick Kho
22
2
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Dreamcore: A New Aesthetic for the Turbulent Twenties
In Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” and GOLD's “dreamedcore,” the dream-like and the uncanny navigate a world in transition.
Jun 16
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Patrick Kho
34
1
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“Chinese Manufacturing” is the New “Zero Interest Rates”
Reporting from a nightclub in Shenzhen: Travel to China is recreating habits and fantasies of the Zero Interest Rate Policy (ZIRP) era.
Jun 2
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Patrick Kho
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11
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A Crypto Scam at the Dim Sum “Rave”
A weekend of crypto bros hijacking local rave scenes, reported from a historic tea house in Hong Kong.
Apr 30
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Patrick Kho
44
11
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How to Resist a Stagnating Club Culture
For Hong Kong’s hardcore/deconstructed music scene, our everyday actions can imagine a better future.
Apr 21
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Patrick Kho
39
4
10
The Imagined “Asian Century” Will Not Exist
A post-internet art party in Hong Kong questions the prevailing narrative that Asia is “the future.”
Mar 31
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Patrick Kho
102
10
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The Rise of Punk Globalism
Punk isn’t “dead,” but it’s changing to reflect a discontent unique to the 2020s.
Feb 10
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Patrick Kho
50
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The DJ Against the End of Globalization
Despite border closures and the rise of multipolarity, DJs are still connecting the world through spontaneous, informal networks.
Jan 27
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Patrick Kho
19
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