Interstitial Lives: Perspectives and possibilities of being interstitial | 間隙生命的生存法則

Interstitial Lives: Perspectives and possibilities of being interstitial | 間隙生命的生存法則This book is the exhibition catalog for "Interstitial Life," documenting a socially engaged art project I co organized with 13 participants in Boston. The project aimed to foster cross species connections between Boston's Chinatown residents, passersby, and pioneering plants. Pioneer plants are those that are among the first to grow in disturbed spaces on the periphery of environments such as buildings, highways, and walls. This project focuses on the

between the archaic artefact and the ultra-contemporary product

Pauline Barrie

seeds and stories

preserving the fleeting inspiration within a rational mind

Taking this position to its ultimate (il)logical end

For an instant

It documents events that occurred in Boston's Chinatown and surrounding areas during the project's development

Almost completely unknown to scholars and curators of the avant-garde

no matter how twisted

12 essays discussing De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in contemporary art and textile craft

magnifying and focusing on the minute details for a more intimate view of the traces of self that were left behind

Whose lungs and souls are capitalized upon and hidden under the suffocating dust in mining shafts