The Centipedes
Interventions, prints with narrated drawings secretly inserted into library books, 2014–2015
The Hidden Libraries of Centipedes
<Herman B. Wells Library, University of Indiana, Bloomington>
JV6450 .N945 Strangers at the Door, Ann Novotny
JV6450 .P35 2004 Elusive Citizenship, John S. W. Park
JV6450 .H38 1990 Illegal Aliens, Pierre N. Hauser
JV6450 .A646 New Immigration, John J. Appel
JV6450 .I553 1993 Immigrant Voices, Edited by Thomas Dublin
JV6453 .K53 2007 Small Strangers, Melissa R. Klapper
JV6455 .W8 1961 c.2 We Who Built America, Carl Wittke
JV 6455 .B87 2012 Attachments: Faces and Stories from America's Gates, Bruce I. Bustard
JV6465 .D26 1997 Not Like Us, Roger Daniels
JV6465 .C33 2012 Social Death, Lisa Marie Cacho
JV6465 .B68 2008 exodus | éxodo, Charles Bowden and Julián Cardona
JV6455 .N63 2011 The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling, Dennis L. Noble
JV6483 .S538 2009 "I Know It's Dangerous": Why Mexicans Risk Their Lives to Cross the Border, Lynnaire M. Sheridan
JV6483 .S74 2010 ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone, Terry Greene Sterling
JV6483 .Y46 2014 The Biopolitics of Race: State Racism and U.S. Immigration, Sokthan Yeng
JV6483 .W47 2010 Brain Gain: Rethinking U.S. Immigration Policy, Darrell M. West
JV6493 .D38 1993 Blood on the Border: Criminal Behavior and Illegal Immigration along the Southern U.S Border, Venson C. Davis
JV6507 .A87 1990 The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism, Lawrence Auster, The American Immigration Control Foundation
JV6483 .L85 2005 The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City, Mary Ting Yi Lui
JV6475 .R3613 2005 Dying to Cross, Jorge Ramos
JV6450 .S75 2007 Almost All Aliens, Paul R. Spickard
JV7402 .M3713 2013 The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail, Oscar Martínez; translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington
JV6035 .L439 Leaving Home: Migration Yesterday and Today, Edited by Diethelm Knauf and Barry Morena; translated by Hildegard Pesch-Skevington and Horst Rössler
JX1391 .W45 1995 World Politics and the Evolution of War, John J. Weltman
JX1395 .W67 1990 World Politics 90/91, Russian and East European Institute
PL956 .K48 1996 An Introduction to Classical Korean Literature: From Hyangga to P'ansori, Kichung Kim
DS918. R48 The Korean War: How we met the challenge: How all-out Asian war was averted: Why MacArthur was dismissed: Why today's war objectives must be limited, Matthew B. Ridgway, 1967
G2330 .K83 2009 The National Atlas of Korea, National Geographic Information Institute, Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs; [Editors in chief, Yongwoo Kwon, Minboo Lee, Jeong-Rock Lee]
GN25 .C48 1978 Principles of Anthropology, Eliot Dismore Chapple
GN24 .H67 The World of Man, John Joseph Honingmann, 1959
P306.2 .M4 Meaning and Translation: Philosophical and linguistic Approaches, Ed. F. Guenthner and M. Guenthner-Reutter, 1978
<Brigance Library, Dept. Of CMCL, University of Indiana, Bloomington>
American Political Patterns: Conflict and Consensus, Dan Nimmo and Thomas D. Ungs
Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations April 30, 1974
A Study of History, Arnold Toynbee, Abridgement by D. C. Somervell
<Reed College, Portland, Oregon>
Books used for "Translation" exhibition at the Reed College
Counter Culture: Immigrant Stories from Portland Cafe Counters, Ronault l.s. (polo) Catalani
Transnational Encapsulation, Xiang Biao
Immigration as a Factor in American History, Oscar Handlin
The Beast, Oscar Martinez
American Arrivals: Anthropology Engages the New Immigration, Nancy Foner
Moving Matters: Paths of Serial Migration, Susan Ossman
Par-dela Les Silenes, Pascale Jamoulle
Migranten, Siedler, Fluchtlinge, Saskia Sassen
Estrangers, Simona Cerutti
Modern Immigration, Annie Marion Maclean
Strangers in the World, Leo eitinger and David Schwarz
Keeping Out the Other: Critical introduction to immigration enforcement today, David C. Brotherton and Philip Kretsedemas
The Map as Art—Katharine Harmon
Paths to Inclusion, Peter Schuck and Rainer Munz
Chinese Immigration, Mary Roberts Coolidge
The Migrants Time, Saloni Mathur
To be an Immigrant, Kate Deaux
The New Americans, Enrique (Henry) T. Trueba
Approaches and Theory in International Telations, Trevor Taylor
Nations Unbound, Linda Basch, Nina Glick Schiller, and Cristina Szanton Blanc
Middle East and the North Africa Immigrants in Europe, Ahmed Al-Shahi and Richard Lawless
The Chosen Shore, Ellen Alexander Conley
Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, Douglas S. Massey, Jorge Durand, and Nolan J. Malone
Los Migrantes Que No Importan, Oscar Martinez
Theory of International Politics, Kenneth N. Waltz
Immigrant Women in the United States, Donna Gabacia
Immigrants Out! Juan F. Perea
Ethical Borders, Bill Ong Hing
The Centipedes is a network of small prints with short stories covertly inserted into the publicly endorsed and collected books about immigration, othering, or international relations at various libraries in the US. The stories are loosely connected to each other by some mention of centipedes alluding to Korean folktales in which centipedes are usually depicted as the villain harassing villagers with the ability to morph their appearances at will. In this project, however, such ability of centipedes provides ambiguity in which other characters in the narratives can reside and be ‘incubated’ before appearing in different bodies. Similar to how insects breed in unexpected places, these strange prints infiltrate the circulation systems of the libraries to migrate through others’ trajectories and unforeseen discoveries.
Read an interview about this project here.
Read an article based on this project here.