FLOATER: BLURRING BASKETBALL LINES

FLOATER: BLURRING BASKETBALL LINES, Chinatown Basketball Club's first book that celebrates CBC past 5 years (2019-2024) unique blend of competitive basketball and aesthetic experimentation, with essays contributed by Herb Tam, Lu Zhang, Reef (Harith Liew), Sean Catangui, Alex Zhang, Chiarina Chen and Dustin Lin. Through documentation of its graphic production and critical texts, FLOATER offers a collective, de-centered, and Asian approach to re-imagining basketball aesthetics, a space dominated by corporate expressions of aggression, masculinity and elitism. It traces how CBC has cultivated collective creativity over five years of collaborative poster art, graphics, and events—addressing questions such as: Is there an alternative, distinctly Asian (diaspora) way of experiencing basketball? Could there be a basketball aesthetic rooted in Asian (diaspora) that exists outside mainstream basketball culture? In anatomy, “floater” refers to tiny specks or shapes that drift across one’s field of vision—never fixed, always in motion. More broadly, the term describes something that remains suspended, either on the surface of water or in the air. In basketball, a floater is a short-range, high-arching shot above the reach of a taller defender. In many senses, floater suggests a suspension of outcomes—full of possibility, hovering just out of reach. The book is made possible with support from TRF. Designed by Xinyuan Qu. Co-published by Chinatown Basketball Club and linlin Plum. 《浮》 這本書記錄了唐人街籃球俱樂部（CBC）自2019年以來，在紐約哥倫布公園每週舉行的籃球活動中呈現出的籃球美學、哲學與個人敘事。通過梳理CBC過往五年間集體設計的海報（其中包括平面設計，視覺藝術以及活動實踐中的影像作品），本書追問是否能夠透過這種集體的創造力，探尋存属于亚洲（离散）群体的篮球体验方式？是否在篮球的主流文化之外，存在著由亚洲（离散）经验形成的篮球美学？

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