White Fungus

20/10/2024

White Fungus is currently on display at the gallery project space einBuch.haus in Berlin. The exhibition is part of the project Publishing in the Asian Diaspora, which has included talks on the Asian diaspora in Berlin and building a bridge to independent publishing communities in Asia.
https://einbuch.haus/blogs/news/publishing-in-the-asian-diaspora

12/09/2024

White Fungus will give a talk at The Book Society in Seoul on September 19 at 6pm. Founders Ron Hanson and Mark Hanson will be joined by the magazine's designer Johnny Hu to discuss the history of the White Fungus project.

Founded in 2010, The Book Society is an independent book store and project space curated by the publishing house Mediabus. In 2023, Mediabus released the book Publishing as Method, which surveys small-scale art publishing in Asia.

일시: 2024년 9월 19일 목요일 오후 6시참여방법: 선착순 20명 (다음 링크를 통해 신청)발표자: 마크 핸슨, 론 핸슨, 조니 후타이완 타이중에 위치한 출판 프로젝트 화이트 펑거스의 마크 핸슨과 론 핸슨, 조니 후가 화이트 펑거스와 ...

11/09/2024

28/06/2024

Robert Ashley is widely considered one of the great American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley created radical new forms of opera, incorporating electronic music and pioneering the use of opera in television. His multimedia projects expanded upon the form in surprising, often perplexing ways.

In 2013, Kurt Gottschalk spoke to Ashley for a major feature in the 13th issue of White Fungus. At the time, Ashley was working on his opera Quicksand, which he completed before his passing in March 2014. The article can now be read online.

Robert Ashley is widely considered one of the great American composers of the post-Cage generation. Ashley created radical new forms of opera, incorporating electronic music and pioneering the use of opera in television. His multimedia projects expanded upon the form in surprising, often perplexing....

28/05/2024

White Fungus is available at 江山藝改所 in Hsinchu.
https://www.instagram.com/jsygs_artcafe/

11/05/2024

Here's an extended online excerpt from Kurt Gottschalk's epic 30-page article about the Art Ensemble of Chicago which appears in the 17th print issue of White Fungus.
https://bit.ly/4dCKJzm

08/05/2024

Late last month was a euphoric moment for Taiwan when Taiwanese-American drag queen Nymphia Wind became the first winner from East Asia of RuPaul's Drag Race. White Fungus editor Ron Hanson spoke to New Zealand drag queen Taipei Popcorn 爆米花, who has collaborated with Wind on numerous occasions and witnessed her first-ever performance in 2018, and wrote an article for Asia New Zealand Foundation's Media Centre. bit.ly/4dyUI8z Image: MTV.

01/05/2024

Roger Boyce explores through lucid, evocative prose the photographic still lifes of New Zealand artist Fiona Pardington. Casting an eye back across the history of painting, Boyce addresses the rich pathos of Pardington’s photography and its visually arresting forms. He describes in them an audacious “through a glass darkly” veneration of things and their inviolable circumstance, an amor fati.

Roger Boyce explores through lucid, evocative prose the photographic still lifes of New Zealand artist Fiona Pardington. Casting an eye back across the history of painting, Boyce addresses the rich pathos of Pardington’s photography and its visually arresting forms. He describes in them an audacio...

23/04/2024

Interviewing Yao Jui-Chung in his studio in 2020. The interview has finally been published. https://www.whitefungus.com/yao-jui-chung-territorial-pissing

22/04/2024

“I found that the ROC was a ghost, just as my father was a ghost. So I was trying to tell ghost stories.”

In 2020, White Fungus editor Ron Hanson wrote a major profile of Yao Jui-Chung 姚瑞中 that was to be published in a new online Japanese publication we'd been commissioned to create by a Tokyo art collector. As the project collapsed due to a dispute over the name, this profile has been sitting in our archives for four years. It's finally been published.

Yao Jui-Chung is one of Taiwan’s most prolific and esteemed contemporary artists. In 2020, White Fungus editor Ron Hanson interviewed Yao for a major profile on the occasion of the artist’s mid-career retrospective, Republic of Cynic, at C-LAB in Taipei. The feature was to be published in a new ...

20/04/2024

Thank you to Nai-Wen Hsu for presenting White Fungus at 台南好本事 this weekend alongside publishing projects by 道音舍, Between-in-Between, and Guille’s beautiful ceramics .

26/03/2024

Sydney noise musician Lucas Abela, AKA Justice Yeldham, is one of the avant-garde's most electrifying performers. Playing music by orally manipulating mic'd-up shards of glass, he employs a range of unusual vocal and rhythmic techniques. His performances can be extreme, even bloody, but are also notable for the rich diversity of sounds he achieves through this rudimentary instrument.

Sydney noise musician Lucas Abela, AKA Justice Yeldham, is one of the avant-garde's most electrifying performers. Playing music by orally manipulating mic'd-up shards of glass, he employs a range of unusual vocal and rhythmic techniques. His performances can be extreme, even bloody, but are also not...

21/03/2024

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, bats have once again been unfairly maligned. As the go-to scapegoat of choice for many, some even called for the mammals’ eradication. In “Batlove Redux”, Tessa Laird, author of the book Bat, part of Reaktion’s much-loved Animal series, mounts an impassioned defense of these marvelous creatures.

Laird celebrates bats, recalling art and literature inspired by the mammals, while raising the alarm over their plight amidst a warming planet. She recalls her own heartbreaking experiences volunteering to rescue flying-foxes during forest fires at Yarra Bend Park in Australia. This article was first published in the 17th print issue of White Fungus. You can now read it online.

In the wake of the Covid pandemic, bats have once again been unfairly maligned. As the go-to scapegoat of choice for many, some even called for the mammals’ eradication. In Batlove Redux, Tessa Laird, author of the book Bat, part of Reaktion’s much-loved Animal series, mounts an impassioned defe...

07/03/2024

Wang Fujui is one of the pioneers of Taiwanese noise, sound, and media art. In 1993, Wang began NOISE, the first label and zine in Taiwan dedicated to noise music, connecting artists from around the world to the island's then nascent experimental music scene. He would go on to become one of Taiwan's leading experimental musicians and sound artists. In 2014, Alistair Noble interviewed Wang for the 14th issue of White Fungus. The interview is now online.

In the realms of Taiwanese noise, sound, and media art, no figure is more influential than Wang Fujui. As an artist, publisher, curator, and organizer, Wang’s contribution to establishing these fields in Taiwan has been indispensable. In 2014, Alistair Noble interviewed Wang about his artistic tra...

05/03/2024

Video of Fujui Wang performing at Taipei Contemporary Art Center 台北當代藝術中心 in 2010. The first-ever White Fungus event in Taiwan.

Wang Fujui (王福瑞) performing at Taipei Contemporary Art Center on July 17, 2010. Presented by White Fungus. This was the first-ever event White Fungus held in...

04/03/2024

In 2010, White Fungus held its first event in Taiwan at Taipei Contemporary Art Center 台北當代藝術中心, not long after it opened in Ximending. Here's a performance by Dino (廖銘和) from that night. It was shot on video and has been sitting in our archives all this time. Dino returns later in the night to perform an improvised second set along with Li Jiun=Yang (李俊陽）which ended when he blew the PA.

Dino (廖銘和) performing at Taipei Contemporary Art Center on July 17, 2010. Presented by White Fungus. This was the first-ever event White Fungus held in Taiwan.

08/11/2023

White Fungus is now available at Heath Newsstand in San Francisco.

https://heathnewsstand.com/products/white-fungus-17

05/11/2023

White Fungus at the Taipei Art Book Fair.
Photos: Frankie Chang