Anna Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World foregrounds the theme of entanglement, using the matsutake mushroom to reveal how ecological, economic, and social worlds are knotted together in precarious ways. Emerging from forests disrupted by industrial logging, matsutake becomes a medium through which displaced human communities, nonhuman species, and global markets intersect. …
Tag: globalization
Film & Installation: An Asian Ghost Story (2022-2023)
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 …