Interstitial Art
Sunday, June 26th, 2011Interstitial Art
The concept of interstitiality
The word interstitial means “between spaces,” and is commonly used to denote “in-betweenness” in several different cultural contexts. Architects refer to the leftover gaps between building walls as “interstitial space,” being neither inside any room nor outside the building. Medical doctors have used the term for hundreds of years to refer to a space within the human body that lies in between blood vessels and organs, or in between individual cells. Television station programmers refer to any short piece of content that is neither a show nor a commercial, but is sandwiched between them, as “an interstitial.”