Nomad Papaya Books
The founder started questioning the identity and nationality of Taiwan but get really confused by himself, so he decided to make art books and collaborate with people, try (not) to answer yet to form new ideologies & relations.
What is changing when you cross the border, leaving your own history/home behind?
Can new encounters also form new identities?
Nomad Papaya Archive is an growing archive of publications around different period of Taiwan, showing a stream of how regime changes and what was documented, in order to build a whole picture of exchanges through history of the Island.
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"Ungenießbare Zeichnungen" is a series of visual traces by the Japanese artist Shin Kudo. „Ungenießbar“ means „unenjoyable“in German, which is a term that used to describe a catogory of fungi, which is considered not so tasty but eatable. What is enjoyable and what is not? For whom is it enjoyable? How does Fungi feels? Isn’t this a standard just for human?"
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"This is a story conveyed to me by a dear friend, who was wrongfully convicted of a crime he didn’t commit, and became a temporary resident at the Sungai Buloh prison in Malaysia...","The Moments before Tandav" is a story questioning about Prison, Religion, Crime, Food, humanity & Divinity.
The publication is in 4 languages including Maley, Tamil, English & Traditional Chinese.