Contemporary circus is growing rapidly across Asia, yet exchange between different regions remains limited. With “Asian New Circus” as its theme, Do Circus Vol. 18 turns its gaze towards Asia and attempts to map a shared landscape of contemporary circus across the region. Looking at different cultures, educational backgrounds and creative contexts, the issue goes beyond individual works to explore how artists respond to their own societies, cultures of the body and local histories, developing circus languages distinct from those that have emerged in Europe. Hong Kong designer Javin Mo draws inspiration from the menus of Chinese restaurants overseas, whose visual language often mixes Taiwanese, Japanese, Korean and Thai cuisines into a single idea of “Asia”. These familiar yet frequently misread aesthetics reflect how Asia has long been imagined and assembled through a Western gaze. By appropriating these visual codes of cultural mixture and misinterpretation, the design poses another question: when Asia is so often treated as a single whole, can we use these overlaps, displacements and encounters to construct new narratives and cultural positions for Asian contemporary circus itself?