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…

Happy to be part of this group show in the Philippines

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.

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

On Thurs 28 Oct, I will be in conversation with Leopold Lambert The Funambulist 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… Galeri_Zilberman War Studies

Spoke with rajan datar on the Malayan Emergency, my research, art and book-making on the topic on BBC World Service The Forum, w Rachel Leow and Show Ying Xin. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3c…

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

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 Sim Chi Yin

Beijing: For many years basements beneath the city have been #home to #lowearners in #Bejing. Sim Chi Yin 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

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.

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 Ian Johnson and Kathy Huang. on.cfr.org/3BVgyAF

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

Sim Chi Yin (Sim Chi Yin) 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, Art Basel Hong Kong. Opening today: bit.ly/3MJ8mbD

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. Sim Chi Yin and Dr Charlotte Lydia Riley explain why theallusionist.org/emergency

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

Blue Trees by @ninamingya is a poetic response to Autograph's commission by artist Sim Chi Yin 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

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

In a new blogpost, artist Sim Chi Yin 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

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