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The Cultures of Entanglement On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art Suzanne Anker, Sabine Flach
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Image Series
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art.
- Art History.
- Art Theory.
- Posthumanism.
- Anthropocene.
- Human-Animal Studies.
- Ecocriticism.
- Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO).
- Nature.
- Theory of Art.
- Visual Studies.
- European Art.
- American Art.
- Fine Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Art.
- Art History.
- Art Theory.
- Posthumanism.
- Anthropocene.
- Human-Animal Studies.
- Ecocriticism.
- Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO).
- Nature.
- Theory of Art.
- Visual Studies.
- European Art.
- American Art.
- Fine Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (376 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Anker/Flach (eds.), The Cultures of Entanglement On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2024
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Biography/History:
- Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
- Sabine Flach is a Professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Graz, Austria, and Chair of the section Contemporary Art at the Departement of Art and Musicology, Universität Graz. She is member of the faculty at SVA, School of Visual Arts, NYC and Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati.
- Summary:
- The symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance to religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art
- The Hothouse Archives: Plants, Pods and Panama Red
- 1. Weeds and the Unrequited
- The Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds http://nextepochseedlibrary.com/lawn/
- 2. Submergence
- Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn
- 3. Out of the Garden
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene
- “The flowers, after all, didn’t understand Greek”: Plants, Politics, Poetics
- 4. The Social Order of Plants
- The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger
- Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture
- 5. Flora
- The Blue Rose
- After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life
- Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers
- Trojan Horse Manifesto
- Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Art
- 6. Animals and the Ethics of Art
- Human-Animal Studies – Bridging the lacuna between academia and society
- Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics
- Heads and/or Tails
- 7. Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetic
- Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools
- L’animal que donc je suis – Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida
- 8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination
- Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance
- 9. ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human-Plant Exchanges
- Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like
- The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South
- Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies
- 10. Quasi Objects
- Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art
- The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation
- Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect
- 11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation
- The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial
- Return to Dilmun
- Pyrexia
- Spearlight
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- List of Authors
- ISBN:
- 3-8394-6805-1
- OCLC:
- 1428235658
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