[Our recent New York City salon was so much fun that we asked host K. Tempest Bradford to share her wisdom. Want to host an IAF Salon in your city? Worried that no one will come? Read on!]
Since the IAF started doing salons we’ve seen a lot of interest from folks outside of NYC (where [...]

he music of pioneering interstitial composer Earl Howard always surprises, but also does something not always achieved by experimental music: it engages and often deeply moves the listener. Live in Brooklyn at Roulette on Saturday May 12, 2012.

Observatory gallery in Brooklyn, NY has a new art show, Sigils & Signs, featuring the work of thirteen artists, including IAF Working Group members (and husband and wife) Daniel Rubuzzi and Deborah Mills in their first carving collaboration: three sculptures intriguingly titled Changeling Blocks — “not-quite-right toys.” Curated by Pam Grossman, the creator of Phantasmaphile, [...]

This coming Saturday, the AFA Gallery in SoHo New York is hosting artist Lin Esser for the opening of his new collection of delightfully skeletal and wryly titled tableaux!
These whimsical, macabre works evoke the eccentric subjects of English symbolism, sinister figures of the renaissance, the anthropomorphic tableaux of Victorian naturalism and the Dia de [...]

Sound sculptor Liz Phillips is developing a particularly exciting new interstitial multi-media venture called Biyuu (a Japanese word describing the sound of bamboo bending in the wind). In this piece, soundscapes will be transformed through the controlled and conscious movement of the human body in live performance.

The guy who put the Interstitial in Interstitial Arts, musician Warren Senders, presents VIOLINS FOR THE PLANET, featuring Mimi Rabson, whose uncategorizable violin quartet music for RESQ (Really Eclectic String Quartet)  was also one of our flagship examples of interstitial music . . . great South Indian violinist Tara Bangalore . . . and Beth [...]

(Eds. note: Interstitial March continues as guest blogger A. M. Kerstetter brings us this report on the third annual Chapbook Festival at City University of New York Graduate Center, where attendees discussed the role chapbooks play in blending literature and art.)
Literature or art? Product or process, private or public? Fiction, poetry, or fragmentary sparks of [...]

(Eds. Note:  We’ve just received this bulletin from IAF Working Group member Ellen Denham, who is currently attending Indy Convergence, the annual 10-day “make-a-wish foundation for artists” in Indianapolis.  We knew from her interview last week with Indy Convergence founder Caitlin Swihart that it was a fabulous event for interstitial artists – but reading Ellen’s [...]

(Eds. note: Interstitial March continues with an interview with artist Brian Counihan, founder of the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival in Roanoke, Va., a long weekend celebration of arts that can be called marginal, liminal or even interstitial. Counihan has said that one of the festival’s goals is provide exhibit and performance space “for art that [...]

Ron Pasquariello, whom IAF folk will know from his ‘dog haiku’ piece The Chipper Dialogues in the IAF Annex last fall, has his artwork up for viewing in two different California galleries this month. Here’s the official invite:
Ron Pasquariello
is exhibiting his artwork at two galleries during the month of June.
Gallery One
May 23-June 26. Multi-artist [...]

It’s not sponsored by the IAF, but the interstitially-minded in New York City on June 15th won’t want to miss this event:
Neil Gaiman, Walter Mosley, Joe Hill, Jeffrey Ford at Columbia U
Neil Gaiman will be in New York City, at Columbia University, to talk about the imagination and the increasingly scuffed line between genre and [...]

Beth Morrison first came to my attention when she produced BINIBON, the highly interstitial Jack Womack/Elliot Sharp collaboration, last year. (I wrote about it, and included some of Womack’s lyrics, here, and there are sound clips in Morrison’s archives.)
She is a champion of the uncategorizable; this week’s New Yorker magazine writes: Morrison is a big [...]