An infrastructure for self-organising
An attempt to bridge something in the in-betweeness
Tofu Stand is a Berlin-based Chinese artivism collective, founded in 2024 by activists/culture practitioners who moved to Berlin from mainland China.Inspired by the early 20th-century Chinese anarchist revolutionaries in Paris who opened tofu factories as revolutionary infrastructure, Tofu Stand continues this lineage in a different time and place.
Tofu Library brings together a collection of self-published books and zines from mainland China and beyond.Tofu Assemble (Events) hosts self-organised assemblies to challenge the existing modes of cultural production–consumption, and to better understand the common struggles of exiled communities in Europe.Tofu Project initiates individual and collective, short-term and long-term artivistic projects.
Tofulogy, the publishing imprint of Tofu Stand, focuses on international solidarity from the situated perspectives of Chinese activists. The publications move between historical archives and the oppressive structures of the present, between fiction and non-fiction, cross historical times, geographies and communities, tracing the cracks where voices can emerge.Through this publication practice, we try to explore how different communities, from within their own positions and struggles, might carve out spaces of empathy and solidarity.
Tofu Stand is a stand for self-publishing, an infrastructure for self-organising, and an attempt to bridge something in the in-betweenness. Tofu stands with Palestinians and all the oppressed, against both Western and non-Western imperial powers through creative practices.