Flaneur is a nomadic magazine focusing on one street per issue. The magazine embraces the street’s complexity, its layers and fragmented nature with a literary approach. The team spends months on location creating and commissioning content, attempting to use a single microcosm to tell universal stories.This issue follows the rivers of Taipei to Wanhua, the oldest part of the Taiwanese capital.
Winner of Magazine of the Year and Art Director of the Year at the 2019 Stack Awards
In this issue:
- Yu Cheng-Ta attempts a self-transformation into a fictional geisha called ShaSha
- Inspired by Jacques Derrida, Snow Huang looks at the memories shaped by the private writings of dissidents, prisoner confessions, verdicts, and interrogation records from the first wave of the White Terror in 1950s Taiwan
- A Pokémon-GO master discusses the app’s subversive potential to reveal the city’s psychogeography
- Collecting weeds and making tea for sex workers with artist Lin Chi-Yu
- Little Dragon Soup: A blend of site-specific research, Chinese medicine, and experimental music to remedy the emotional distress of the park near Longshan Temple
