{"product_id":"9781917651257-weeds-a-germinating-theory","title":"Weeds: A Germinating Theory","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis visual and textual essay surveys cities from Jerusalem to Hong Kong to Mexico City from the point of view of the weeds that inhabit them, learning from their tenacity and mutability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor over a decade, artist and theorist Kwan Queenie Li has been photographing weeds across the world. From Jerusalem to Shanghai, Varanasi to Athens, Cairo to Mexico City, she has trained her attention on these unintended but ubiquitous inhabitants of the contemporary urban sphere, finding them dwelling in corners and cracks, in spaces suspended between uses, in ruins and on construction sites.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e This essay in image and text proposes a new view of cities that learns from the weed’s point of view, dissolving familiar categories and temporalities to see cities as evolving and often undefined spaces, replete with opportunity. Weeds organically defy phenomena that are taken for granted as immovable: walls, borders, history, and prescribed identities. They are registers of the real lives of cities – of disuse and neglect, but also freedom and porousness. Out-of-place by definition, they offer a new perspective on the idea of ‘place’ itself, and the ways it shapes and is shaped by its inhabitants.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56558253703542,"sku":"9781917651257","price":23.81,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_39489468.jpg?v=1768483251","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781917651257-weeds-a-germinating-theory","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}