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Hu Shu-Wen
Shuwen Hu is a writer based in Taipei, Taiwan. Her works includes a collection of short stories Sorrowful Allure is the Childhood, and the novel The Sun’s Blood is Black. From 2018 to 2020, she co-published with fellow novelists a collection of experimental short stories L’abécédaire de la littérature: A-Z. She edited and co-authored The Undeliverable Last Letters (2015), which records the wills, and letters of the White Terror political prisoners. In addition, with Tung Wei-Ge, she co-edited Let the Past Be the Present (4 volumes), and Souls & Ashes: Collection of Taiwan White Terror Prose (5 volumes). She is currently working on two projects, respectively focused on “aesthetically deconstructing the #metoo movement” and “reconstructing the White Terror in Taiwan.”
胡淑雯，著有短篇小說《哀豔是童年》、長篇小說《太陽的血是黑的》，主編並合著《無法送達的遺書》，記錄白色恐怖政治犯的遺書與家書。2018-2020與小說同業出版短篇小說實驗集《字母會》，已出版A到Z共26冊。另與童偉格主編《讓過去成為此刻：台灣白色恐怖小說選》共四冊、《靈魂與灰燼：台灣白色恐怖散文選》共五冊。目前正從事「美學的角度解構metoo的限制」與「重構台灣白色恐怖」的創作計劃
Publications
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Title: Violet Quartz
Series Title: Beacon – a series in ten issues
Category: Criticism
Artist: Hong-Kai Wang
Writers: Bill Dietz, Övül Durmuşoğlu, Darla Migan, Hu Shu-Wen, Hong-Kai Wang
Series Editor: Bopha Chhay
Design: Vicky Lum
Copyeditor: Gina Badger
Publisher: Artspeak
Printed by: Metropolitan Fine Printers
Year Published: 2021
Pages: 20
Cover: soft
Binding: staples
Dimensions: 15.2 x 22.9 cm
Edition of 300
ISBN: 978-1-927630-13-6
Cost: $12
Subscription: $100 – for ten issues‘BEACON – a pamphlet series in ten issues’ focuses on how the commitment of artists’ to wider social movements informs contemporary artistic practice. The series will feature texts by artists whose practices engage with language and visual arts.
Current issues:
01 – Ruth Buchanan
02 – Hong-Kai Wang
03 – Christina Battle
04 – Justine A. Chambers
05 – Jared Stanley and
Sameer Farooq
06 – Gelare Khoshgozaran
07 – Lana Lopsei
08 – Be Oakley
09 – Bopha Chhay
10 – Nasrin Himada
