Unknown Quantities
Edition 12

Lost and Found

From the Editors

Two words that speak to us of absence and recovery. Here, text and images resist the simplicity of this binary, looking towards the fleeting, the often overlooked and the transformative. We have found something growing in the cracks of the concrete, reassembled from the dust within an archive and in the light that the moon casts upon the sea. We have lost many things, but not in their entirety. Like an atmospheric sound that lingers over us, they remain living, waiting for our attention. An unknown quantity of reverberations surrounds us, conjuring memories, both material and affective, so as to offer a careful rereading of the present.

As this 12th issue of Unknown Quantities unfolds, a myriad of disciplines converge, asking you to dwell in the tension of impermanence. Reflecting on what we lose, what we find and what we hold, even if just for a moment.

Editorial

Andrew Murray Anjuli-Irene Vadera Hazel Graham Isabella Millett Nicky Kai Ho Liang Monong Li Qianru Yang Runxin Zheng

Contents

Mångata Hazel Graham The Dust After the Story / Dusta ag deireadh an scéal Isabella Millett The Dust After the Story / Dusta ag deireadh an scéal Mythology for the Global Village Niyi Okuboyejo Mythology for the Global Village Porcelain and Cake Qianru Yang in conversation with Shengjia Zhang Porcelain and Cake Finding the Liminal Barney Pau Unleavened Mary Stuart Murray Rave On Tim Gibney Rave On A Saturday Potter Nicky Kai-ho Liang The Fragmented Identity of Objects Qianru Yang The Fragmented Identity of Objects I Dreamed it Backwards Maia DeCamillo Seen and Unseen Jango Cai in conversation with Mono Li Seeing Chinatown Runxin Zheng in conversation with Morris Lum Sonic Entanglement Louis Duvoisin Sonic Entanglement Collective Resonance Radio Alhara in conversation with Isabella Millett How Do We See Text? Mono Li Rust, Clasp and Humble Hinge Anjuli-Irene Vadera In Transit To Transit Grp. and Unknown Quantities In Transit To Necessary Corridors Andrew Murray Do You Ever Arrive In A Place That Is Lost? Liliana Della Valle Do You Ever Arrive In A Place That Is Lost?

Images (above): Dúchas (National Folklore Collection, UCD), Niyi Okuboyejo, Shengjio Zhong, Tim Gibney, Qionru Yang, Louis Duvoisin, Transit Grp., Kim Chile

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With thanks

Nick Kimberley, Matthew Chrislip, Rosie Ram, Isabel Albiol Estrada, Lee Weinberg, Alison Green and all of our contributors and distributors.