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“I Throw Everything into a Blender When I DJ”: An Interview with Misty Penguin

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·October 5, 2021·6 min read
No Man is an Island presents the first of a set of collaborations with Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform. For our first cross-posted article, we spoke with Beatrice Wong, who DJs as Misty Penguin. Apart from being one of Hong Kong’s few transgender DJs, Wong is also a stand-up comedian and filmmaker. The following article was originally published on Electric Soul on September 10th Read More

“The Stuff I Do Are All Accumulations of Things”: An Interview with Alexmalism

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·July 6, 2022·11 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Alexmalism, who researches electronic music culture as a Ph. D candidate at the City University of Hong Kong, and is also a DJ, producer, and sound artist. The following article originally appeared on Electric Soul, a Hong Kong-based electronic music magazine and ticketing platform, on December 21st, 2021 Read More

A Farewell to a City That Has Changed Forever

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·December 10, 2021·6 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Rainbow Chan, whose EP Stanley was released on November 25th. According to the EP description, “Stanley is her exploration of a love past, a farewell to a city that’s changed forever” Read More

A Transient Think Tank for the Underground

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·March 25, 2022·8 min read
Brian Hioe spoke with Arthur Bray from Hong Kong-based Yeti Out on how Yeti Out began, its successes to date, and what comes next for the platform Read More

Creating a Safe Space in Music: A Conversation with SYS Sister Sounds

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·June 18, 2022·3 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Margaret Tra from SYS Sister Sounds, a collective which runs DJ workshops for women and non-binary people in Vietnam, among other activities Read More

Creating Musical Spaces of One’s Own

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·November 19, 2021·24 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Ani Hao, who DJs as Ani Phoebe, and is a writer, feminist media strategist, as well as one of the founders of Bad Times Disco and New Wave Read More

Interview: Charles Yu

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·January 19, 2021·8 min read
New Bloom/No Man is an Island editor Brian Hioe spoke to writer Charles Yu about his recent book, Interior Chinatown, which recently won the National Book Award Read More

Interview: Finsent

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·June 25, 2022·5 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Hong Kong DJ Finsent about his time in Macau during COVID-19 and how the scene in Macau and China has changed during COVID-19 Read More

Pioneering in Ordinary Life

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·July 6, 2021·15 min read
New Bloom/No Man is an Island editor Brian Hioe interviewed Lance and Stuart Chen-Hayes, who recently published 兩個爸爸. This follows up on an interview conducted following the publication of Double Dads One Teen in English in 2019. Lance is Taiwan’s first out gay dad and their nonbinary teen, Kalani, became the first Taiwanese citizen with two father’s names on both an international birth certificate and an international marriage license Read More

Promoting Taiwanese Indigenous Culture with Electronic Music

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·November 2, 2021·7 min read
Brian Hioe spoke to Dungi Sapor, an Amis Indigenous DJ from Hualien. Dungi Sapor will be performing at the VIBE Party in Brain at Pipe Live Music on Friday, November 12th and the Hualien Performing Public Space Festival from November 19th to November 21st Read More

Taiwan’s Ecological History as Performance: The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age

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·July 10, 2022·6 min read
New Bloom/No Man is an Island’s Brian Hioe interviewed artists Kappa Tseng and Chiang Tao about her recent art project, “The Collection of Time in the Polymer Age" Read More

Telling a Story About Two Generations in Hong Kong

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·September 7, 2021·4 min read
No Man is an Island interviewed Kelvin Chan Kin-long, the director of recent Hong Kong film Hand Rolled Cigarette Read More
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