Shanzhai Lyric is a body of research focusing on radical logistics and linguistics through the prism of technological aberration and nonofficial cultures. The project takes inspiration from the experimental English of shanzhai t-shirts made in China and proliferating across the globe to examine how the language of counterfeit uses mimicry, hybridity, and permutation to both revel in and reveal the artifice of global hierarchies. Their ever-growing archive of poetry-garments circulate in the form of poetry-lecture, publication, and installation. From the fictional office entity Canal Street Research Association (est. 2020) they continue to problematize notions of ownership and property through bootleg as method. Their work has been presented in unofficial and official spaces including Amant, Times Museum, Stuart Hall Library, SculptureCenter, PS1, MIT, Harvard, and the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Published works include essays in The New Inquiry, Viscose, Vulture and ArtReview.