“Golden Snail Opera” Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 31 No. 4 (2016) Tsai, Carbonell, Chevrier, and Tsing’s contribution to Cultural Anthropology‘s experimental “Sound + Vision” section performs what it argues: that multispecies entanglement requires multispecies form. The golden apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata) was imported to Taiwan from Argentina in 1979 for an imagined escargot industry, declared invasive …
Over three weeks in late summer 2023, the Franco-American collective Le Ratoire canoed the length of the Hudson River — the Mahicannittuk — from Troy to New York City, filming on 16mm and developing each night’s footage using invasive plants foraged along the banks: mugwort, Japanese knotweed, wood ash from bonfire, and the river’s own …
Karel Doing’s article proposes the phytogram — an image made by combining the internal chemistry of plants directly with photographic emulsion — as both a technical practice and a theoretical provocation. Drawing on structural/materialist film theory, biosemiotics, and perspectivism, Doing argues that conventional cinema is fundamentally a human-centred apparatus: its lens, frame ratio, and projection …
— Google Arts & Culture / Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation Between 1910 and 1940, Chinese men detained at the Angel Island Immigration Station carved poetry into the wooden walls of the barracks where they waited — sometimes for months, sometimes for years — under the regime of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Over 200 poems …
Media + Migration Lab Fall 2025 Newsletter 2025–2026 Theme: Entanglement The Media + Migration Lab continues to expand the ways we think about migration — not as a single trajectory or discrete event, but as a complex web of relations, histories, and ongoing movements that link people, places, and ecologies across time. Migration is never …
Beyond the Border Headlines: Media Coverage of Nigerian and ECOWAS Migration Narratives Nigerian and West African media often reproduce global crisis-driven frames, neglecting everyday regional mobility and the human context of migration. Migration has long been central to West Africa’s social and economic fabric, shaping livelihoods, families, and regional interdependence. Nowhere is this more evident …
Site-specific Installations by Maria Thereza Alves Seeds of Change: Marseille 1999-2000 Seeds of Change: Reposaari 2001 Seeds of Change: Liverpool 2004 Seeds of Change: Exeter and Topsham 2004 Seeds of Change: Dunkirk 2005 Seeds of Change: Bristol 2007 Seeds of Change: Antwerp 2009/2019 Seeds of Change: New York City 2017 Maria Thereza Alves is a …
An Asian Ghost Story is a film and installation piece by artist Bo Wang. It is a meditation on the spectral traces of Asia’s late-20th-century modernization, told through the unlikely medium of wigs and the global hair trade. Beginning with the 1965 U.S. embargo on “Asiatic hair”— later rebranded as “communist hair”— the film exposes …
Produced by WHYNOT, Walk the Line is a powerful exploration of media and migration, documenting the perilous journeys of Chinese migrants across the Darién Gap as they fled Zero-COVID restrictions, economic precarity, and political repression. Blending documentary footage with user-generated videos and social media content, the film adopts a hybrid media style that mirrors the …
