Thing Thinking by Lane Timothy Speidel IN RESPONSE TO ANDREW LIANG
Objects without desire
What can I want
Everything will fall
Take your shot
Mown Grass
Drunk Coffee
Front Lawn
Home Show
Michael’s Shoes
Rim Shot
Hot Dog
Bigger Than
Crossed Wheel
Steered Here
Fire Arm
Sagging Red
What baby are we raising
What baby have we raised
I don’t care if I ever go back?
All Hat
Giant Flies
Tiny Trucks
Struck Dumb
Water Fountain
Top Sliced
Side Loading
Intact Male
Grilled Dinner
Fast Supper
Book Slurp
And Crush
One and the next,
smoothly they go down,
if they don’t wriggle out,
if they are thoughtful,
once they’re done.
Bios:
Te-En (Andrew) Liang immigrated to the United States from Taiwan with his family in 1993 at the age of 13. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores diverse political, social identities, and cultural interpretations. In 2003, he co-founded Splotch, a web-based, artist-run collective that showcases and reviews global artworks. In 2009, Liang became a co-director of Current Space, an artist-run gallery in Baltimore City committed to showcasing interdisciplinary and experimental programming. There he led many collaborative projects including Human Foosball (2009), Mole Balls (2010), Human Pinball (2011), Cart (2011), and BINGO (2012). Liang’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, with notable shows at Varnish Fine Arts in San Francisco (2005), WPA/Corcoran in Washington D.C. (2006), Kunstraum Kreuzberg in Berlin (2008), Hudson Gallery in Frederick, Maryland (2011), Brooklyn Artist Alliance in New York (2012), Space 1026 in Philadelphia (2013), WTMD in Towson, Maryland (2015), Evening Hours in New York (2018), and The Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery in Arnold, Maryland (2023). He earned his MFA from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2024). Andrew lives in a row house in Baltimore City, Maryland, with his wife and son, where he also maintains his studio.
Lane Timothy Speidel is an artist, writer, and curator based in Philadelphia. They express themselves indiscriminately across media and discipline, merging visual and written languages. Speidel stands in their identity, queer/trans/disabled/Jewish, to celebrate love and joy while also upending systems, turning trash into treasure, changing form, moving forward. They exist in a space "captured between awe, greif, silliness, and confusion" (Speidel, ihopeilikethis.com). Speidel received a BFA in Sculpture from the Tyler School of Art and is a current member of Vox Populi Gallery. Their work has been exhibited widely, with notable shows at Transformer Gallery, Vox Populi, the National Liberty Museum, Space 1026, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, and Flux Factory, among others. They received the Leeway Transformation Award in 2024. In addition to numerous self-publications including zines, poetry, and short stories, they have contributed to major print and online journals such as Artblog, Wicked Gay Ways, Title Mag, Ginger Zine, and Stone Fruit.
