Listening to this week’s NPR On the Media segment with host Brooke Gladstone speaking with Occupy Wall Street representative (and former AIDS activist) Bill Dobbs made me think of the early days of the IAF.
When Brooke presses Dobbs to say what genuine action the Occupy Wall Street protests are achieving, he says that they’ve gotten [...]

When it come to interstitial possibilities, the web never fails to surprise. In a stunning example of an open multimedia collaboration, The Johnny Cash Project allows participating artists from all over the world to each draw one frame of an animated music video for the late singer’s haunting tune “Ain’t No Grave.” The movie changes [...]

(Ed. Note: Tweeted today by mythicdelirium (that’s me) — an impromptu interstitial index to this year’s Interstitial March (so far.))

We’re more than halfway through the Interstitial March series @interstitialart — I’m going to RT the entries so far #marchmadnessiaf
Interstitial intro: “a term that one can use when no other descriptor quite fits” http://bit.ly/fr9tvp @interstitialart #marchmadnessiaf
Interview [...]

IS THIS INTERSTITIAL ART?

(Eds. note: Interstitial March continues as guest blogger Ashly Nagrant of Buzznet.com provides an appreciation of multidisciplinary artist Robin Barcus-Slonina, who crosses photography, sculpture, fashion and performance in beautiful and startling ways. All images are courtesy of Barcus-Slonina’s blog, “States of Dress.”)
I’ll be the first to admit, I don’t really get fashion-as-a-trend. [...]

DEAR March, come in!
How glad I am!
I looked for you before.
— Emily Dickinson
Welcome to March Madness at the Interstitial Arts Foundation, Second Edition.
To celebrate the interstitial in the arts is to toast accomplishments that succeed in new space, that proceed as if the boundaries of discipline and category weren’t even there.
To address the concept in [...]

I am a lifetime birdwatcher – all the best birding quests are interstitial by nature. The best places to find the most species are precisely the habitats that overlap with and fall between larger, more homogenous zones.
In terms of the Northeastern U.S.A., a classic example is the hedgerow, the twisting, entwined cat’s cradle between acres [...]

The IAF Tweets at http://twitter.com/InterstitialArt, where we also follow the

Although I’d argue that interstitiality is much, much more than “literary fantasy”, the official 2009 Nebula award ballot is full of such interstitial friends and fellow travelers as China Mieville (The City and The City), Jeff VanderMeer (Finch), Interfictions 2 co-editor Christopher Barzak (The Love We Share Without Knowing), James Morrow (Shambling Towards Hiroshima), Scott [...]

Excerpts from today’s New York Times Book Review piece by Pankaj Mishra:

Ideological inconsistency, [Zadie Smith] writes in her foreword [to her new collection, Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays], is, for me, practically an article of faith.
Smith’s hope . . . derives . . . from academic high theory, which assumes that those who live [...]

A short story by Franz Kafka reads in its entirety, “Leopards break into the temple and drink to the dregs what is in the sacrificial pitchers; this is repeated over and over again; finally it can be calculated in advance, and it becomes a part of the ceremony.”
This dreamy little fable serves as an [...]

As it says over in that sidebar to the left on our homepage, the IAF is dedicated to “the study, support, and promotion of interstitial art.” It’s a tall order. As I’ve written elsewhere, interstitial art is uncategorizable, and the reason we dragged ourselves into the non-profit world was to try to create a public [...]