Xsport on Paper: Samplings of Publishing Practices from the Global South

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《紙上極限運動：全球南方的出版實踐取樣》由臺灣藝術家兼作者張紋瑄彙編，內容包含18篇探討拉丁美洲與東南亞地區的獨立出版和抵抗運動的個案研究。

本書作者將足跡踏遍秘魯、墨西哥、巴西、泰國、馬來西亞、新加坡、印尼、台灣等國，訪談對象囊括藝術家、革命者、NGO工作者、獨立出版社、獨立圖書館、歷史學家及設計師，最終匯集成18個出版取樣，包含其在2018至2020年間，於多種的「南方」，與不同背景的實踐者的會面。這些實踐不僅重新定義了「出版」與「抵抗」，也重新定義了政治性與當代性。

Xsport on Paper: Samplings of Publishing Practices from the Global South is a compilation of 18 case studies by Taiwanese artist and writer CHANG Wen-hsuan, exploring independent publishing and resistance in Latin America and Southeast Asia.

Visiting Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Taiwan, Chang interviewed artists, revolutionaries, NGOs, independent publishers, independent libraries, historians, and designers—18 case studies of a multivalent ‘south’ made between 2018 and 2020. Their practices redefine not only publishing and resistance, but also politicity and contemporaneity.

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張紋瑄是一位台灣藝術家、寫作者與教育工作者，目前為荷蘭阿姆斯特丹大學文化分析學院（ASCA）博士候選人。其創作實踐處在當代藝術、歷史編纂與教育之間，透過質疑體制化歷史的敘事結構，暴露出潛藏於主流論述中的權力運作。藉由裝置、動態影像及講述表演等形式，他建構出後設虛構空間，在其中，偏離原件的檔案與第一人稱敘事被重新部署，使歷史中尚未實現的可能性得以被重讀、重寫與重新想像。2018年發起「Writing FACTory」，這是一個長期的虛擬工廠計畫，旨在生產出版作為政治及教育實踐的戰略方案。

CHANG Wen-Hsuan is a Taiwanese artist, writer, and educator, currently a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam. Working at the intersection of contemporary art, historiography, and pedagogy, her practice interrogates the narrative structures of institutionalised history to expose the power dynamics embedded in dominant accounts. Through installations, moving images, and lecture-based formats, she constructs metafictional spaces where skewed documentation and first-person accounts activate history’s unrealised potentials, allowing it to be re-read, re-written, and re-imagined. In 2018, she launched Writing FACTory, a virtual factory that manufactures tactical forms of publishing as political and pedagogical practices.