Date & Time: Sunday, December 14, 2025 14:45-15:45 (Reception opens at 14:30)
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / EVENT SPACE (1F / next to the museum shop)
Admission: Free (a TABF admission ticket valid on the day of the event is required)
Language: Japanese, English [Interpreter: Satoko Yokoyama]
Speakers: Kechun Qin (co-founder & editor / te editions) × Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey (designers)
te editions, a New York- and Beijing-based collective engaged in curation, editing, and publishing, will present a conversation between the editor Kechun Qin and the designers Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey. Together, they will introduce the artist book Dance in Herland by Luka Yuanyuan Yang, exploring how editorial vision and design intersect to produce a book through a critically engaged perspective.
Dance in Herland documents the stories and experiences of Chinese American performers, foregrounding voices often marginalized in dominant cultural narratives. Gathering photographs, rare oral histories, creative writings, and interviews with scholars into a living archive. Designers Studio Pianpian He & Max Harvey wove these layers together, using papers in different colors to map diverse oral history backgrounds, while delicately translating the visual traces of an era into the language of the book.
Event reservation: https://peatix.com/event/4643310
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*On-site registration will be available on the day of the event, subject to seat availability.
Kechun Qin / te editions
Kechun Qin is the co-founder and editor of te editions—a curatorial, editorial, and publishing collective operating in New York and Beijing, dedicated to exploring the intersection of art and the humanities. We examine historical and contemporary social landscapes through a diversified and microscopic lens, focusing on how cultures encounter, collapse, and transform each other within global cultural flows.
Web: https://te-editions.com
Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey
Studio Pianpian He and Max Harvey is an interdisciplinary design studio founded in 2015, working between China and America. Their focus lies in making images within booming, declining, fluctuating, and unsustainable economies. The studio moves between contemporary art and publicity, at a moment where promotion often conflicts with a work’s intentions. Their practice examines what should be revealed or discarded in the final product, sometimes to avoid over-explanation, sometimes to embrace it. Sailing against usual patterns of effective promotion and fast consumption, they aim to create modest but lasting design works, even collectibles.