Kwan Queenie Li & Kelly Ma: 'Weeds' [Book launch & talk]

Join us for the New York book launch for Weeds: A Germinating Theory by artist Kwan Queenie Li who will be joined by curator Kelly Ma in a lively discussion about this brand new book, published as part of MACK’s new Sightlines series.

For over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites.

Free RVSP here. 

Tuesday 17 February
18:00-20:00

Head Hi
146 Flushing Ave
Brooklyn, NY 
11205, USA

More about Weeds: A Germinating Theory

This essay in image and text proposes a new view of cities that learns from the weed’s point of view, dissolving familiar categories and temporalities to see cities as evolving and often undefined spaces, replete with opportunity. Weeds organically defy phenomena that are taken for granted as immovable: walls, borders, history, and prescribed identities. They are registers of the real lives of cities – of disuse and neglect, but also freedom and porousness. Out-of-place by definition, they offer a new perspective on the idea of ‘place’ itself, and the ways it shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants.