Forum

Boundless Bound Online Forum: Dialogues Across Heritage, Publishing, and Practice

October 14 – October 15, 2026

This free online forum brings together artists, designers, educators, archivists, and independent publishers for three conversations exploring cultural heritage, contemporary Chinese and diasporic experience, artist books, archives, and independent publishing. Through discussions of cultural memory, identity, translation, and creative practice, the forum explores how Chinese cultural heritage is transmitted, reinterpreted, and transformed across generations, communities, and diasporic contexts.

Organized by Boundless Bound Publishing, the forum is part of 传/Chuán & Boundless Bound Publishing: Dialogues Across Heritage, Publishing, and Practice, a broader program connecting exhibitions, creative research, experimental publishing, and public engagement.

FORUM PROGRAM
All times are in US Eastern Daylight Time (EDT, UTC−4).

Panel 1: Objects, Archives, and Cultural Heritage
Wednesday, October 14 | 5:00–6:00 PM EDT
Traditional Chinese objects and contemporary artist books in dialogue across time and place, exploring how materials, images, collections, and publishing carry, reinterpret, and reactivate cultural heritage.

Panel 2: Boundless Bound Publishing: Heritage and Contemporary Chinese Experience
Wednesday, October 14 | 6:00–7:00 PM EDT
Chinese cultural heritage and contemporary experience are explored through memory, identity, translation, diasporic experience, digital culture, archival practice, and experimental art and design.

Speakers:
* Hong Huo | Messiah University
* Xiaoyu Liu | Multidisciplinary Designer and Artist, Brooklyn, NY
* Yangyang Zhang | VCUarts MFA ’26

Panel 3: Independent Publishing Across Chinese and Diasporic Contexts
Thursday, October 15 | 6:00–7:00 PM EDT
Independent publishing, artist books, cultural translation, and circulation across Chinese and diasporic contexts, exploring how publishing reinterprets cultural experience across different places and audiences.

Speakers:
* Akaa Ling | Now Place
* Chen Yun | 51 Personae

All three conversations will be moderated by Feixue Mei, Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at James Madison University and founder of Boundless Bound Publishing.

The forum is free and open to all. Registration is required to receive the online access link.
Registration: Boundless Bound Online Forum – Eventbrite

They warmly welcome librarians, archivists, researchers, educators, students, artists, designers, and independent publishers interested in these conversations.

Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues, students, and wider professional networks.

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