The Mapping Asia project took form in an expanded publication Mapping Asia,[1] an exhibition, and a series of programmes between April and September 2014. Traversing land and sea, connecting Guangzhou to Peru, Lesotho and Elba with a field note-like approach that includes artwork, essays, email exchange, literary extracts, film, exhibition reviews, music, newspaper clippings and comics, the project offered impressions of Asia to stimulate further research.[3]
The publication[1] includes a foreword by co-editors Claire Hsu and Chantal Wong, and contributions from MAP Office, Rasheed Araeen and Chen Kuan-hsing, Brinda Kumar, Yin Ker, Teboho Edkins, Phoebe Wong, Ho Tzu Nyen and Robert Wessing, Francisco Camacho, Adam Bobbette, Terence Pang, Sardjana Sumichan, Toru Hanai, Zhou Tiehai, AMitav Ghosh, Andrew Ross and MTL (Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain), Harry Harrison, Jeannie Wu and Agha Shahid Ali.
Public programs included Singing Resistance with Sumangala Damodaran, a concert featuring songs from India's anti-colonial and immediate post-colonial resistance movement, presented in collaboration with Spring Workshop.