Bio
I’m the author of four books, a musician, a reiki practitioner, a husband, an uncle, a traveller and now settled down. I was originally born in Vancouver, Canada, and now live in Sydney, Australia. I started www.andyquan.com many years ago, primarily as a way to promote my writing, but it expanded to included my music, community activities, photos of my niece and nephew, and my reiki practice. I had a separate blog on blogger for a few years, but then combined my blog and webpage after figuring out how to do with wordpress. My blog here on andyquan.com is a mixed bag: mostly restaurant reviews these days (food: I love it) but also book reviews, travel, consumer tips, creative non-fiction and occasionally, news on writing projects. Welcome to my webpage and thanks for the visit. Have a look around! 
Details, details
I was born in Vancouver, B.C. , a Cancer by Western Astrology and a Cock by Chinese. I’m third-generation Chinese-Canadian through my father’s family (who settled in Vancouver) and fifth-generation Chinese-American through my mother’s family (who settled in Hawaii) and obtained my Australian citizenship in 2007. I lived in Vancouver until 16, when I won a scholarship to attend the United World College, Pearson College, in Victoria from 1986-88. I did a bachelor’s degree in International Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario from 1988-1993, taking time off in between each year to do the Ontario/Ecuador exchange program of Canada World Youth in 89-90 and attend the International People’s College in Elsinore, Denmark in the fall of 1991, before I travelled Europe for the first time and then worked at Expo’92 in Seville, Spain.
On completing my first degree, I did a master’s degree in political science at York University in 93-94, focusing on international political economy, lesbian and gay studies, and feminist politics. My professional career began as the coordinator of the International Lesbian and Gay Assocation in Brussels, Belgium from 94-96 where I travelled extensively, including to Brazil, Japan, Russia and throughout Western and Eastern Europe. I moved to London at the start of 1997 and worked as the project manager of Rubberstuffers (RS Health Ltd), a gay men’s education agency which provided condoms and lube packs to gay men in London. I have lived in Australia since the start of 1999. I worked for about 7 years as the International Policy Officer for the Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations with a cross-over period of time where I worked as the project manager for Asia (and for a short time, Eastern Europe/Central Asia) for the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition’s HIV Collaborative Fund project. In the last decade, I have a new career as a freelance editor, and in the last years as a part-time reiki practitioner. You’ll find more information on the site about my writing and music, and through the blog, whatever else is on my mind. Anything else? Just ask.
Andy on the web
- My youtube account (for videos of me playing my songs): www.youtube.com/andyquanmusic
- Some of my songs up on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/andyquan
- I’m amused and honored to be included in a wiki of Asian-Canadians.
- My very basic wikipedia entry is here.
Andy’s webpage
This website started up in the middle of 2001. The rather amazing Kenny Campbell was the person who provided the original design and layout for this website, and taught me how to get it online! When I needed a host and lots of good IT advice, Tim Mansfield provided it, as well as coaching me on figuring out the upgrade to WordPress in 2011, and designing my old landing pages. Thanks Timster!
Hi Andy
Just thought I’d mention I got 404 errors when I tried to look at your pages on myspace and youtube. Very interesting site and great poetry! Email me if you want to meet up for a coffee and a chat sometime!
Andy,
My partner and I are considering a longer than usual trip to Europe. Starting in Amsterdam and ending in Edinburgh. We will be stopping in Paris and London as well. I’m interested in doing a small amount of shopping at the used and resale clothing stores you spoke of. Are they still doing business and would you put any others on your list?
Don’t speak any French, so I was wondering if there are tours that would cover men’s shopping?
Thanks for any help or suggestions.
Best to you and your
ken mason
( kapm )
Hi Ken
I am pretty sure there are English-language women’s shopping tours, but I would doubt that they have them for men. The best thing to do would be to pick a few places on the list, and work it into your itinerary. As far as I know, all the stores I mention are open. The London one might have unusual hours so check their website before you go.
Have fun! If you have any luck or other suggestions from your experiences, please feel free to post them here.
Love ya Andy 🙂
*looks at food posts on your blog*
Dear Andy,
I have founded the new organ Kolektivne NSEAE. Anyone is invited to register on WordPress and collaborate in the network assemblies of the collective, leaving comments. The address of the site is: https://kolektivnenseae.wordpress.com/.
I ask you if you are interested in sending me three of your texts, with a short bio-bibliography in a single word file. For now I have translated and distributed through Network Italian, Serbian artists, and I am working on the translation of Romanian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, German, American and Spanish ones (they are the major world artists).
The Kolektivne NSEAE network is the communication organ of the recent NSEAE movement (new socio/ethno/aesthetic anthropology), inserted in the WordPress circuit and connected to the artistic/literary sites of ninety other nations. It explains, with exasperating slowness, due to my many work and academic commitments, the history of the opposition movement of the NeoN-avanguardia (entered into the history of contemporary literature [2007-2024]), provides information, hosts texts by important international artists and debut authors. If you are interested, take a look and sign up to the network.
What do you think?
Thanks and goodbye
Ivan
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Who am I?
I am one of the major Italian opposition artists.This is my very short bio: you know, magazines cut. My real curriculum studiorum is four pages.
Ivan Pozzoni was born in Monza in 1976. He introduced Law and Literature in Italy and the publication of essays on Italian philosophers and on the ethics and juridical theory of the ancient world; He collaborated with several Italian and international magazines. Between 2007 and 2018, different versions of the books were published: Underground and Eiserva Indiana, with A&B Editrice, Versi Introversi, Mostri, Galata morente, Carmina non dant damen, Scarti di magazzino, Here the Austrians are more severe than the Bourbons, Cherchez the troika. et The Invective Disease with Limina Mentis,Lame da rasoi, with Joker, Il Guastatore, with Cleup, Patroclo non deve morire, with deComporre Edizioni. He was the founder and director of the literary magazine Il Guastatore – «neon»-avant-garde notebooks; he was the founder and director of the literary magazine L’Arrivista; he is the editor and chef of the international philosophical magazine Información Filosófica; he is, or has been, creator of the series Esprit (Limina Mentis), Nidaba (Gilgamesh Edizioni) and Fuzzy (deComporre). It contains a fortnight of autogérées socialistes edition houses. He wrote 150 volumes, wrote 1000 essays, founded an avant-garde movement (NéoN-avant-gardisme, approved by Zygmunt Bauman), with a millier of movements, and wrote an Anti-manifesto NéoN-Avant-gardiste. This is mentioned in the main university manuals of literature history, philosophical history and in the main volumes of literary criticism. His book La malattia invettiva wins Raduga, mention of the critique of Montano et Strega. He is included in the Atlas of contemporary Italian poets of the University of Bologne and figures à plusieurs reprized in the great international literature review of Gradiva. His verses are translated into French, English and Spanish. In 2024, after six years of total retrait of academic studies, he return to the Italian artistic world and melts the NSEAE Kolektivne (New socio/ethno/aesthetic anthropology).
What am I doing now? Since I have always been an activist, and until 2018 I created the largest neo-avant-garde movement in Europe, I create movements. The Kolektivne NSEAE.
This is the network assembly of the new artistic opposition movement Kolektivne NSEAE (New Socio/Ethno/Aesthetic Anthropology), born as a legacy of the millennials movement of NeoN-Avant-garde and its Anti-manifesto. The network will tell: a. the story of the neon-avant-garde movement, which has entered the history of Italian and international literature of the 21st century, b. the reasons for its closure, in 2018, due to the change of historical and aesthetic «paradigm» due to the conclusion of the transition (κρίσις) between the modern and late modern eras, c. the artistic urgency of introducing a new, late modern movement, capable of reformulating the theoretical foundations of the «aesthetic experience». The network will implement boycott actions, aesthetic guerrilla warfare, attacks against very contemporary lyric “poets” and will try to give space to “new” voices, activists or beginners, of aesthetic opposition.
What am I interested in having? Send me three of your texts, with a short bio-bibliography in a single word file.
Why? Little by little, having a very full life, introduce foreign authors in Italy, with a wordPress network, connected to 95 nations (Ethiopia included).
For now I have the texts of the major Italian artists, opposition or not (everyone has the right to sing) to sponsor abroad, and some foreign artists (Manfred Malzahn, Michael Leong, Peter Maiwald, Annie Finch, Anghelo Nestore, Serkan Engin, Elham Hamedi, Nader Ghazvinizadeh, all the Russians and Serbs from Gugolev to Milosevic).
I have anthologized 10,000 artists in my career and it is always a pleasure to meet new people
P.s. Sending three texts + bio does not force anyone to register to the Network or to join the movement. Mine is only a form of sponsorship of worthy Italian artists abroad (and vice versa).
I, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, prefer to anthologize academic artists, like me. Because I believe a lot in the concept of poet/sophos and I believe – as C.S. Peirce argued in matters of epistemology – that art must be a permanent assembly of artists, aimed at fighting nomadic neo-capitalism, multinationals and consumer publishing groups, in defense of those who are weak.
Ivan