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“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes.”


Dionne Brand

A Muitas Mãos /
Held By Hands


Over the past few years the scale and scope of the Kpop community has revealed itself through mass scale online activism. Fans raised millions for social justice activists, such as BLM legal costs, aid to Yemen, pro-democracy movements in Thailand, groups crashed extreme-right websites, collapsed Trump web-shops.


Publication
Year: 2022
160 pages, B&W photo plates

Language: Portuguese or English

with Publication Studio São Paolo



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Featuring

Aline Barbosa, EVE, Julia Guerreiro, Kananda Simonetti, Kelly Nobre, Lohaynne Beringui, Lucas Victor Aureliano, Marcelle Belfort, Millah C. S. Gomes, Natália Amorim, Paula Castro, Paulina Yeal Cho e/and Sabrina Diniz.


https://www.vetgedrukt.com
TENT Bookshop Rotterdam, NL
Publication Studio São Paolo, Brasil
Casa do Povo, São Paolo, Brasil
Good Press, Glasgow, UK
Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Wusband and Wusband, Glasgow, UK
Burley Fisher Books, London, UK
Banca Tatui, Sao Paolo, Brasil
Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm Sweden
PS Montevideo, Uruguay
PS Guelph, Canada
Page Not Found, Den Haag, NL

The sheer number of members in these fandoms is incomprehensible, and the capacity they wield to collectively facilitate social developments and foster a pro-justice agenda is on a trans-continental scale that is arguably unprecedented and, coming as it does from a non-western mainstream cultural interest, widely un-reported.

With this project I commissioned a series of texts from members of the Brazilian Kpop community, whose formal practices range across philosophy, museology, and activism, to think together about how their experience of popular culture as a community building device meets the conditions of formal establishment culture.