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Oceans.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Syperek, Pandora.
Contributor:
Wade, Sarah (Radio producer)
Series:
Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sea in art.
Ocean and civilization.
Arts and society.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (326 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge : MIT Press, 2023.
Summary:
OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the oceans and their running currents within contemporary art and visual culture.Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat, and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfolds. Artists have envisioned the sea as a sublime wilderness, home to mythical creatures and bizarre species, a source of life and death, a site of new beginnings and tragic endings, both wondrous and disastrous. From migration to melting ice caps, the sea is omnipresent in international news and politics, leaking into popular culture and proliferating in recent art and exhibitions.This anthology gathers artists and writers to address the ocean not only as a theme but as a major agent of artistic and curatorial methods.Artists surveyed includeBas Jan Ader, Eileen Agar, John Akomfrah, Heba Y. Amin, Shuvinai Ashoona, Betty Beaumont, Leopold and Genevieve Hamon, Allan Sekula, Shimabuku, Christine & Margaret Wertheim, Alberta WhittleWriters include Stacy Alaimo, Bergit Arends, Erika Balsom, Karen Barad, Rachel Carson, Mel Y. Chen, T.J. Demos, Marion Endt-Jones, Kodwo Eshun, Paul Gilroy, Stefano Harney, Epeli Hau'ofa, Donna Haraway, Eva Hayward, Stefanie Hessler, Luce Irigaray, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Celina Jeffery, Melody Jue, Max Liboiron, Lana Lopesi, Chus Martínez, Jules Michelet, Fred Moten, Astrida Neimanis, Celeste Olalquiaga, Ralph Rugoff, John Ruskin, Marina Warner, Jan Verwoert
Contents:
Intro
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
BODIES (IN AND OUT) OF WATER
The Grey Beginnings//1951
The Ocean in Us//1998
Beyond Essentialism: Contemporary Moana Art from Aotearoa New Zealand//2018
Oceans//2014
Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche//1980
Bodies of Water//2017
How to Make an Ocean//2023
Priority to Indigenous Pleasures//2021
Submerged Bodies: The Tidalectics of Representability and the Sea in Caribbean Art//2020
Ideas para siluetas (Ideas for silhouettes)//1976-78
The Harbours of England//1856
The War, Cornwall, and Artist in Landscape 1939-1946//1952
The Death Swamps (or a Pond within an Ocean)//2023
Heidi Bucher: A Work Illuminated by the Senses//2022
AQUATIC IMAGINARIES
Mad Love//2019
Sea-deep//undated
'Be Abstracted': On Paul Thek's Artistic Oeuvre//1995
Playing Moby Dick//2020
According to Shuvinai//2021
Drexciya as Spectre//2013
Ellen Gallagher's Confounding Myths//2013
Lessons from Solariss//2023
The Missing Link//2002
Surface Encounters//2011
The Spill and the Sea//2012
In Conversation with Matthew Higgs//2004
The Floating World of Giant Kelp//2021
ALIEN SEAS?
Alien Ocean//2009
Vampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise//1987
Invertebrate Visions: Diffractions of the Brittlestar//2014
A Monstrous Transformation: Coral in Art and Culture//2013
The Blaschkas' Slippery Gender Models//2014
Genealogical Mutations in the Works of Wangechi Mutu//2020
The Milky Sea//1861
Fluid Mechanics//2000
Sensational Jellyfish//2012
Passionate Cruces: The Art of Dorothy Cross//2005
Dolphins in Space, Planetary Thinking//2017
With Octopus, 1990-2010//2021
CROSSINGS
The Black Atlantic as a Counterculture of Modernity//1993
Two Ships/Time Travel/Bodies Under the Sea//2019
Fantasy in the Hold//2013.
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk//2019
Fish Story//1995
Operation Sunken Sea//2018
Fluid Encounters: Lani Maestro's A Book Thick of Ocean//2014
Teignmouth Electron//1999
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous//2006
Seascape Escape//2014
Diving Through Europe (2009-2039): In Conversation with Bergit Arends//2023
The sea is spread and cleaved and furled//2020
ANTHROPOCENE OCEANS
In Conversation with John K. Grande: Culture Nature Catalyst//2004
From the Shore to the Coast: Curating the Front Line of Climate Change//2020
A (Highly) Partial Field Guide to British Canals//2021
Pollution is Colonialism//2021
Seabed Mining in Armin Linke's 'Prospecting Ocean'//2019
Pfui - Pish, Pshaw / Prr//2017
Your Shell on Acid: Material Immersion, Anthropocene Dissolves//2016
Amorous Anthropomorphism, Marine Conservation and the Wonder of Wildlife Film in Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno//2020
Sym-chthonic Tentacular Worldings: An SF Story for the Crochet Coral Reef//2015
The Environment, Édouard Glissant, and the Poetics of Solidarity//2021
Feeding the Ghost: John Akomfrah's Vertigo Sea//2020
An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea//2018
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Notes:
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ISBN:
0-262-37392-0
0-262-37391-2
OCLC:
1379469337

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