Taiwan-based magazine WHITE FUNGUS will hold a release event for its 13th issue during their one-month residency in San Francisco at Kadist Art Foundation.
Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 3-5pm
Reading from “The First Woman on Mars” by Ron Drummond
Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars Trilogy
Venue: KADIST, 3295 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
Cost: Free
By way of introduction to the 13th issue, contributing author Ron Drummond will read from his essay/fiction hybrid, “The First Woman on Mars,” a story that proposes an original Mars settlement scenario with the potential to serve as the inspirational and “dramatic centerpiece” to unite all human endeavors in space. He will be joined by Kim Stanley Robinson, the science fiction writer and award-winning author of the Mars Trilogy and 2312. Together they will discuss the social, economic, and political implications of the human push into space and efforts to colonize Mars, as well as the ecological and sociological sustainability of life on the red planet and elsewhere in the solar system.
About WHITE FUNGUS
White Fungus is a magazine and interdisciplinary art project. Based in Taipei and distributed throughout the world, each issue contains interviews, articles on art, music, history and politics, and original art works. In 2012, White Fungus was featured in the exhibition Millennium Magazines at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In November 2012, the founders of White Fungus, brothers Ron and Mark Hanson, delivered a talk on the history of White Fungus at Guangdong Times Museum in Guangzhou, China. www.whitefungus.com
White Fungus is an English / Chinese bilingual publication with a rapidly growing audience in Taiwan, China and Hong Kong. It is distributed throughout the US, Asia, Europe, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. White Fungus is held in collections including The New York Public Library (Art & Architecture Collection), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), Taipei Fine Art Museum, The Southbank Centre (London), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, National Library of Australia and Te Papa (National Museum of New Zealand).
