Abstract
Abstract: This essay examines the multiple relations of mobile, mediating entities that cross politically disputed waters to be transformed and rendered visible on the shores of the Matsu archipelago in the Taiwan Strait. Drawing on an ethnographic account of the Matsu Biennial in 2022, this essay seeks to unmoor our understandings of archipelagos and site-specific art from the sitedness of the island itself to the floating trajectories and mobilities that operate in between. Moreover, it explores the structures of contradiction that permit an artistic poiesis and coexistence of paradoxical realities via interlapping cases of disenchanted ghosts, planktonic suspensions, temporary sustainability, and so on and, ultimately, suggests that the facticity of "bricolage" might offer a path to embracing modes of mobile cosmopolitanisms considered archipelagically through embracing mobiles already cosmopolitan.
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