Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

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Ian Johnson @iandenisjohnson

2 years ago

It’s getting real: just got the catalogue from @PenguinBooks for the September launch of my book on counter-history in China with a snazzy cover by @aiww The catalogue cover features the late great Wang Xiaobo, whose essays are finally appearing in English!

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Autograph @AutographABP

3 years ago

Blue Trees by @ninamingya is a poetic response to Autograph's commission by artist @chiyin_sim In a series of poems, Powles emphasises the collective legacies imbued in the uncanny experience of people and place as simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar bit.ly/3VfXHJJ

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Prof. Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 🐲🌋 @taoleighgoffe

3 years ago

Art Talk in Brooklyn Heights: 🎨Tonight I was so happy to be in conversation with artist @chiyin_sim and her powerful meditation on colonial intimacies, family silences, British Malaya, and China. @AsiaArtArchive it was recorded ICYMI.

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Autograph @AutographABP

3 years ago

In a new blogpost, artist @chiyin_sim discusses her commission with curators Renée Mussai and Bindi Vora and using the archive as a site for photographic time travel to explore issues of childhood, trauma, futurity and the legacies of colonial violence bit.ly/3HukmOr

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Autograph @AutographABP

3 years ago

NEW COMMISSIONS 📷 Critical Times: Dialogues in Contemporary Photography Sim Chi Yin, Reena Saini Kallat and Laura El-Tantawy were selected by Autograph and @BagriFoundation to create work responding to critical geopolitics of our time through photography bit.ly/3yFKX4S

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The Allusionist @AllusionistShow

3 years ago

A new episode is in your podfeed. The British Empire had a trick of calling some of their wars 'emergencies' instead of wars, really quite the euphemism for eg the Malayan Emergency which was a 12-year conflict. @chiyin_sim and @lottelydia explain why theallusionist.org/emergency

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Aesthetica Magazine @AestheticaMag

3 years ago

Sim Chi Yin (@chiyin_sim) presents the land as an archive for conflict and memory. Surreal, blurred images document isolated sites in Malaysia and Thailand. Represented by FOST Gallery, Singapore, @ArtBasel Hong Kong. Opening today: bit.ly/3MJ8mbD

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

3 years ago

Pleased to be showing my “Remnants” series in a solo booth at @ArtBasel HK next week with Fost Gallery. fostgallery.com/art-basel-hong…

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Council on Foreign Relations @CFR_org

4 years ago

China is one of Russia’s closest partners, but supporting the invasion would damage Beijing’s ties with wealthy democracies and alienate many Chinese citizens, writes @iandenisjohnson and Kathy Huang. on.cfr.org/3BVgyAF

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

Nuclear history comes back to bite us… Russian forces are battling Ukrainians in the Chernobyl exclusion zone, risking damaging the cement-encased reactor. Consequences will be felt from far… These images I made in 2017 are from a U.S. facility built during the Cold War.

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KULTURAUSTAUSCH (English) @KultAust_EN

4 years ago

Beijing: For many years basements beneath the city have been #home to #lowearners in #Bejing. @chiyin_sim has created portraits of the residents over four years. Find the #photography series as well as an #interview in our new issue! To order: bit.ly/Erde_Heft #housing

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

Happy new year from Brooklyn! After an intense two years with a dozen exhibitions, a new book, a baby and moving across continents in a pandemic, we’ve relocated here with our toddler and will be based between New York and Berlin over the next two years. Instagram @chiyin_sim

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

My conversation with @MaazaMengiste on post-colonial trauma, grief, absence, recovery and intervening in the colonial archive is now out on @OculaArt. ocula.com/magazine/conve…

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

Spoke with @rajandatar on the Malayan Emergency, my research, art and book-making on the topic on @bbcworldservice The Forum, w Rachel Leow and Show Ying Xin. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

On Thurs 28 Oct, I will be in conversation with Leopold Lambert @TheFunambulist_ on State(s) of Emergency -- on my work on British Malaya and his work on the colonial continuum in French use of emergency law. Join us on Zoom: zilbermangallery.com/talk-en-one.ht… @ZilbermanGaleri @warstudies

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

My new solo show opens in Berlin tomorrow, at @ZilbermanGaleri, with a conversation with @MaazaMengiste at 12pm! art-agenda.com/announcements/…

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

I’ll be doing a talk with @MaazaMengiste this Saturday 12pm at Zilberman Gallery Berlin on our mutual work on colonial and vernacular archives - to mark to opening of my solo show looking at the anti-colonial war in British Malaya and my interventions in the colonial archive.

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Sim Chi Yin @chiyin_sim

4 years ago

Happy to be part of this group show in the Philippines

UP Vargas Museum @UPVargasMuseum

4 years ago

Happy to be part of this group show in the Philippines

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COTCA Nottingham @COTCAProject

4 years ago

The 'Malayan Emergency Case Study' is now live on the COTCA Digital Archive, with a digital map of the Emergency resettlement programmes, compiled by Dr David Baillargeon, available and fully Open Access: cotca.org/case-studies/t…