Asplenium listeri outside the Christmas Island National Park. Asplenium listeri Asplenium listeri, commonly known as the Christmas Island spleenwort, is a species of fern in the Aspleniaceae family. It is endemic to Christmas Island, an Australian territory in the north-eastern Indian Ocean. Its specific epithet honours British zoologist and plant collector Joseph Jackson Lister, who visited the island on in 1887 and was the first to collect a specimen. The spleenwort is a small, terrestrial, lithophytic fern with shortly creeping rhizomes, and with fronds up to 90 mm long held in a crown. Found only on Christmas Island, the fern is known
Type A (artist collective) Cantz published a monograph featuring this collaboration with the IMA in September 2009. From 2009 to 2011 Type A embarked on two projects exploring fear, safety and authority: "Barrier" (2009) and "Trigger" (2011). "Barrier" is a large scale concrete sculpture installation recreating Jersey highway barriers and "Trigger" explores America’s obsession with guns. For "Trigger," Type A created a series of photographs which are printed and sold as shooting targets by Law Enforcement Targets Inc. With this project they practice what they call "Interpropriation" or “the act of interjecting themselves and actively participating in cultures outside the art world.” In 2012