Roundtable discussion with AFSAR: women led communities

Deutsche Bank “Artist of the Year” 2025, Charmaine Poh is a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), a dynamic platform that addresses the urgent need for transnational discourse through decentralized and reciprocal exchange between Asian and diasporic Asian art practitioners.

As part of Berlin Science Week, a hybrid storytelling session will focus on several women-led communities in China: the Comb Sisters (from Guangdong) and Vegetarian Women (from Fujian), as well as folk religion centering female deities. Members of AFSAR, Charmaine Poh, Christina Yuna Ko, Hye-in Park, Mooni Perry and Sun Park will share their research on the disappearing history and culture of these powerful independent communities, and what it means to form community in this time. The conversation will be moderated by journalist and Missy Magazine co-founder Sonja Eismann, whose work and teaching center on feminism and pop culture.

As part of the exhibition program of Charmaine Poh: Make a travel deep of your inside, and don't forget me to take at PalaisPopulaire