Chinese New Year is not just a holiday. It is texture, distance, color, sound, and the kind of memory that returns before you do.
Stories of Chinese Lunar New Year, a special edition that gathers works and writing that reimagine the season through objects, places, and feeling.
Banana Slips
A banana peel often exists only in a fleeting, overlooked moment:consumed, discarded, stepped on. It is a trivial residue, and the starting point of an accident. A loss of bodily balance, a rupture in order, a deviation from an intended path.
Banana Slips takes the banana peel as an entry point to invite artists to attend to things and moments that appear insignificant yet actively intervene in reality:failure, absurdity, embarrassment, risk, misuse, slipping, or subtle disruptions of everyday order.
The banana peel is both object and metaphor, a trace left after consumption, a bodily reaction that precedes rational thought, and a site where systems reveal themselves through minor cracks.
We are interested in how artists misread, magnify, dismantle, or redefine this image, transforming it into works with contemporary relevance and critical depth.
