Beyond Diaspora: just a Nomad Papaya
📃 Talk Event
📅 19 Apr 2026, 13:30 - 14:15
📍 Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
💬 bad English (supported by Mandarin)
🎫 Free entry. As seating is limited, we recommend booking your spot in advance. Walk-ins welcome on the day, subject to room capacity.
Nomad Papaya BOOKS is an art book / zine publishing house focusing on the transition of culture(s) and identit(ies), based in Taiwan / Germany. Drawing on our publications from recent years, we reflect on our experiences of practicing publishing in a “foreign country”,and on our encounters with different identity formations along the way: community, diaspora, migration, local… Where do we truly belong? Who, exactly, are we?
Can encounters form new identities?
👤 Speakers
Kenneth Ting-Yu Lin was born in 1994 Pennsylvania, United States and returned to Taiwan at the age of two. His practice mainly explores the power dynamic & geo-political histories behind images with a light way. In 2023, he founded “Nomad Papaya Books“, an independent artbook/zine publishing house focusing on local narratives and how identity forms in crossing border experiences.
zhaoyuefan was born in Wuhan and grew up in Beijing, China. She has been living and working in Germany and Switzerland since 2016. Her artistic practice moves fluidly between a variety of mediums and responds playfully and adaptably to different environments. Her works are a series of translation, transplantation and transformation based on the transcultural context, thematising both visible and invisible borders of language, culture and identities. Alongside her own practice, she is also part of the artist publishing house Nomad Papaya Books.
離散之外：遊牧木瓜的跨境出版
📃 讲座
📅2025年4月17日 13:30 - 14:15
📍Copeland Gallery, London SE15 3SN
💬 有限英语（普通话辅助）
🎫 免費入場。由於座位有限，建議提前預訂你的位置。當天亦歡迎直接入場，惟須視場地容量而定。
遊牧木瓜出版（Nomad Papaya Books）是一個以藝術書和小誌為核心的獨立出版單位，現在德國與台灣兩地之間活動，關注文化與身份在流動中的轉變。本次講座中，我們將透過回顧近年的出版實踐，反思在「異鄉」進行出版工作的經驗，以及在此過程中與各種身分形態的相遇：社群、離散、遷移、在地⋯⋯我們究竟屬於哪個族群？又該如何自我定義？
相遇是否能形塑出新的身分？
👤 講者介紹
林庭宇1994年出生在美國賓州，兩歲回到台灣。他的創作往往以輕盈的方式切入影像背後的權力關係與地緣政治歷史。2023年，他創立了「遊牧木瓜出版 Nomad Papaya Books」，一個關注在地敘事，以及身分如何在跨境經驗中被形塑的獨立藝術書籍/zine出版單位。
趙悅凡在武漢出生，北京長大，從2016年起在德國和瑞士活動。她的藝術實游移於多種媒材之間，探討語言，文化與身份所形塑的有形與無形邊界，是一系列基於跨文化語境的翻譯，移植，和轉化。在個人創作之外，她也是獨立藝術出版單位遊牧木瓜出版的成員。