Kwan Queenie Li & Lisa Andreani: 'Weeds' [Artist talk]

Join us for a special artist talk with Kwan Queenie Li, author of Weeds: A Germinating Theory. Li will be joined by curator Lisa Andreani in a lively discussion about this playful visual essay, 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 to attend.

Friday 3 July
17:00 

MACK Reading Room
Scuola Piccola Zattere
al Ponte Longo, Dorsoduro
Fondamenta Zattere Ai Gesuati
1401, 30123 
Venezia VE, Italy

More about Weeds

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.

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