''White Fungus'' is an art magazine and project based in

Taichung Taichung (, Wade–Giles: ''Tʻai²-chung¹'', pinyin: ''Táizhōng''), officially Taichung City, is a special municipality located in central Taiwan. Taichung has approximately 2.8 million residents and is the second most populous city of Ta ...

City,

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. Founded by brothers Ron and Mark Hanson in

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, New Zealand, in 2004, as a quasi-political manifesto, copies of the first issue were produced on a photocopier, wrapped in Christmas paper and hurled anonymously through the entrances of businesses throughout the city. Now a magazine featuring interviews, writing on art, new music, history and politics, ''White Fungus'' takes a dialogical approach to the work it covers. The name of the publication comes from a can of “white fungus” the Hansons found in their local supermarket in the industrial zone of Taichung City. Each cover of ''White Fungus'' is derived from a scan of the can. ''White Fungus'' has held interdisciplinary art events at galleries and venues including P.P.O.W. (New York), Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco), N.K. (Berlin), The Lab (San Francisco), SOUP (Tokyo), Zajia Lab (Beijing), XXX (Hong Kong), Taipei Contemporary Art Center, the Cube (Taipei), Treasure Hill (Taipei), VT Artsalon (Taipei), ARTSPACE (Auckland), Waikato Museum (Hamilton), Adam Art Gallery (Wellington), Enjoy Public Gallery(Wellington), and The Physics Room(Christchurch). The publication is held in library collections including The Museum of Modern Art (New York), The New York Public Library (Art & Architecture Collection), The Southbank Centre (London), Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Taipei Fine Art Museum, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, National Library of Australia and

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(National Museum of New Zealand). The magazine has included articles by notable New Zealand art writers and artists, including Tao Wells. ''White Fungus'' was part of the exhibition ''Millennium Magazines'' at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2012. The exhibition was a survey of magazines made by contemporary artists since 2000. In November 2012, White Fungus founders Ron Hanson and Mark Hanson gave a talk about the history of ''White Fungus'' at Times Museum in Guangzhou, China. In 2013 ''White Fungus'' was the magazine in residence at

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in San Francisco. While in the Bay Area, ''White Fungus'' released its 13th issue with events at Kadist and the Lab. The issue includes an article entitled 'The First Woman on Mars', written by American writer and independent scholar

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. In late 2013 White Fungus signed a worldwide distribution deal with WhiteCirc in London.

References

Interview by Paul Holdengräber, Quarantine Tapes

Interview by Jim Mora, Radion New Zealand

Stack Magazines Interview

Interview by Steven Heller, The Daily Heller

MagCulture Interview

Vice Magazine interview

A Growing Manifesto - Interview on Baron Magazine

Interview on Monocle Radio's The Stack

Interview on ICRT

Some Cool Zines You Should Know About - Complex Magazine

"Eating White Fungus", HYPERALLERGIC

"Spores of Knowledge", The Wire

Interview in The Critic

Interview on Arts on Sunday - Radio New Zealand

Interview Sly on the Wall

Review on Partial Durations

Review on EyeContact

Crazy Dream To Pursue: White Fungus For The Masses
profile of the Taiwan-based founders.
Profile of White Fungus #12 on Self Publish, Be Happy.

White Fungus interview on The End of Being

White Fungus to go Global - Art Radar Asia

Podcasts of Ron Hanson appearances on Upbeat with Eva Radich - Radio New Zealand

A Quick Word with Ron Hanson - Idealog

Kiwi Mag on an International Roll - Idealog

NZ mag White Fungus Picked to Feature at MoMA - Idealog

Fungus Mag wins place at MoMA - Dominion Post

- Interview with Bryan Crump - Radio New Zealand

Springing-Up-White-Fungus-Comes-to-Nelson - White Fungus comes to Nelson - Nelson Mail

An arts mag from New Zealand - with universal appeal - Tokafi

Review on Harsmedia

Interview with editor Ron Hanson on 'Kim Hill'

White Fungus on World TV

Art Mag Set For New York Exhibit

Review on The Lumiere Reader

External links

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