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Speculative Place is a living-dead space. Originally founded in Hong Kong, now re-emerged as an artist-run project, Speculative Place endures in printed form, on the web, and in occasional workshops and talks.

We aim to stage interventions to disperse the necessary and urgent archival projects and discourse around alternative film and print that may be encumbered by national jurisdictions, cultural bounds and definitions. Our interests center on challenging the boundaries of area studies, supporting daring new works and fomenting critical conversations across mediums, disciplines and place.

Ceasing its physical residency in 2021, Speculative Place formerly operated as an experimental, cohabitating and elastic residency hosting over twenty residents working in film, writing and art, including Carolyn Lazard, Elvia Wilk, Ming Lin, Leo Goldsmith, The Centre for Land Affairs, Joshua Gen Solondz, Haley Josephs, Alex Nguyen-Vo, Jimi Tsang, Karen Cheung and many others since 2018 on Lamma Island in Hong Kong. 

Due to the ongoing political changes in Hong Kong, the relocation of Speculative Place brings with it a renewed aim to provide an open and virtual site for ongoing collaboration, discourse and screenings between a dispersed group of artists, filmmakers and writers. As a recently unmoored site with future goals to re-establish as a residency space, in its next chapter, Speculative Place seeks to maintain a presence in the interim as an apparitional, living-dead project space through partnerships and collaboration with various arts spaces and collectives to reroute and recirculate new possibilities.