Ron Hanson

Taipei-based artist Anchi Lin (Ciwas Tahos) creates work dealing with the impact of colonization on the First Nations Atayal people of Taiwan while exploring the possibilities within her Indigenous culture for activating a queer space. In Lin's recent artworks, she seeks to recreate the spirit of Temahahoi, a place, according to Atayal oral stories, where a self-governed community of women resided independent of men.

Nicholas Thoburn's "Anti-Book" is a 'book' that interrogates the book-form. In his critique of this beloved commodity, Thoburn challenges our understanding of books as transcendent moral and aesthetic objects unsullied by commerce. Rather, he says, books are pulsing with capitalist relations. Thoburn proposes instead a "communism of textual matter". White Fungus editor Ron Hanson has been corresponding with Thoburn and, in the first of a series of articles based on this communication, introduces Thoburn's concept of the anti-book and its historical precedents.

In one of her last major interviews, Carolee Schneemann spoke with White Fungus editor Ron Hanson, reflecting on her life—from childhood drawings and adolescent adventures in Mexico to New York's downtown avant-garde, her unusual relationship with Joseph Cornell, her complicated friendship with Stan Brakhage, and the belated recognition she received in the final years of her life.

An exhibition by Chiu Lin-yao focused on the materiality of objects and the physical processes of change.