Cher Tan is an essayist and critic. Her work has appeared in Hyperallergic, Runway Journal, The Guardian, Cordite Poetry Review, The Age and Disclaimer Journal, among others. She is an editor at Liminal and the reviews editor at Meanjin. Her critically-acclaimed debut essay collection, Peripathetic: Notes on (Un)belonging, is now out with NewSouth Publishing.

Chunxiao Qu: “Contemporary art is what garbage is”
Artist and poet Chunxiao Qu bends common language into absurd, funny and meaningful forms that are as forthright as the glow of her neon lights—as seen in her latest show at FUTURES Gallery.