Care Label Bookmark

“The Shanzhai Lyric is an inquiry into global logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures. By collecting, archiving, and studying the experimental text that often appears on shanzhai clothing coming out of China and proliferating across the globe, the project looks specifically at how the language of counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies.” —Ming Lin and Alexandra Tatarsky, Shanzhai Lyric

This Care Label Bookmark is a clever archival tool and publication that subverts the original use of a garment label. This item features an imprinted description of the Shanzhai Lyric project on a white satin-weave 16”x1.5” label.

2021, Chinese & English
Published by: Display Distribute (Hong Kong)
Satin,16”x1.5”, black text on white ground