Display Distribute

Display Distribute is a thematic inquiry, distribution service, now and again exhibition space and sometimes shop operated by a roving cast of conceptual shop girls and co-conspirators. A port region extending out of ‘the world’s factory’—The Pearl River Delta is seen as both a facilitator and processor, a microcosm of broader global trends that also bears witness to the capricious circulation patterns of low-end globalisation. Documenting the ad-hoc arrangements and juxtaposing micro and macro interactions rapidly transforming the social and material landscape, Display Distribute undertakes collaborative research projects that trace these flows and fissures of ongoing movement in order to investigate otherwise possibilities for networked forms of production and the community of ‘shop-like structures’. These activities include long-term initiatives such as artist-run distribution service LIGHT LOGISTICS, poetic research and archival unit Shanzhai Lyric, the catalogue-cum-readers’ digest publication『CATALOGUE』, and a peripatetic radio programme of hidden feminist narratives known as Widow Radio Ching.