The Cultures of Entanglement
On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art
1st Edition
Published on 4. March 2024
376 pages
978-3-8394-6805-0 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
99
43 s/w Abbildungen, 56 farbige Abbildungen
75 SW-Abbildungen, 30 Farbabbildungen
File size
11,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-6805-0 (9783839468050)
DOI
10.14361/9783839468050
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05/2024
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Editor
Sabine Flach, Universität Graz, Österreich
Sabine Flach (Prof. Dr. phil.) ist Professorin für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst an der Universität Graz, Österreich, und ist Vorsitzende der Abteilung Zeitgenössische Kunst am Institut für Kunst- und Musikwissenschaft, Universität Graz. Sie ist Mitglied der Fakultät an der SVA, School of Visual Arts, NYC und Professorin an der University of Cincinnati.
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Content
- Cover
- 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/
- List of Illustrations
- 2. Submergence
- Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn
- References
- Acknowledgements
- List of Illustrations
- 3. Out of the Garden
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene
- Introduction: Rousseau's Nature & The Great Transformation
- Against the Pedagogy of the Enlightenment: Rousseau & Human Nature
- Overcoming Nature: The Great Transformation & The Rise of the Anthropocene
- Undergoing vs. Overcoming Nature: Dominique Janicaud & Rousseau
- 'Everywhere' in Chains: A Pedagogy of Counter-Enlightenment as Rousseau's Botanique
- References
- "The flowers, after all, didn't understand Greek": Plants, Politics, Poetics
- "We can only be hunters of objects": Plants, Politics, Poetics
- Myth: Home
- Traveling and Crossing Borders
- The Residence: Free Exchange
- The Plants' Political
- References
- List of Illustrations
- 4. The Social Order of Plants
- The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger
- References
- Online Resources
- List of Illustrations
- Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture
- Between city and countryside
- Performance, vinyl records, and audience participation
- Bringing the country into the city
- Psychogardens
- Post-colonial gardens
- Conclusion
- References
- List of Illustrations
- 5. Flora
- The Blue Rose
- pH Blue
- Red Cabbage Recipe
- Defying Mother Nature
- The Blue Rose as Postmodern Icon
- The Elusive Blue Gene
- Delphinium Blooms
- The Color Blue
- Towards the Future
- References
- Online Resources
- List of Illustrations
- After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life
- List of Illustrations
- Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers
- List of Illustrations
- Trojan Horse Manifesto
- List of Illustrations
- 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
- The (Western) Origins
- What are Human-Animal Studies about?
- Human-Animal Studies and their potential as connectors between academia and society
- HAS at the University of Innsbruck
- Outcomes of HAS
- Creating bridges
- Appeal
- References
- Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics
- Animal challenges for traditional aesthetics
- Interspecies Art
- Swarm aesthetics and relational art
- References
- Lectures
- Video
- List of Illustrations
- Heads and/or Tails
- References
- 7. Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetic
- Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools
- Overture: Flowing Matter
- Nature or phýsis
- Introduction: The Control or Reduction of Nature
- Undergoing/Overcoming Nature
- The Occurrence of Deconstruction is Already Nature/ Natural
- All Art is Ecological or 'The Morton Gambit'
- Non-Human Artists & Hypoobject Hunters
- More Notes on 'Hypo-Objects'
- On Being Object Hunters
- Strange Tools for a Future Aesthetics
- References
- List of Illustrations
- L'animal que donc je suis - Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida
- Pour dire les plus longues phrases / Elle n'a pas besoin de mots (To utter the longest of sentences it has no need of words) - Charles Baudelaire
- L'animal que donc je suis - The Animal that Therefore I am
- "Alive entities and inanimate things, made and not made"
- Epilogue: Ashamed of / at being ashamed
- References
- List of Illustrations
- 8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination
- Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance
- Political Strawberries
- Flowers Personified and Persons Florified
- Sex and Gender of Flowers
- Becoming a Flower
- 'Superhuman Dance' and Queerness
- 'Priestess of Pantheism' and the 'Natural Language of the Soul'
- Mediating Technology
- References
- List of Illustrations
- 9. 'Theatrum Botanicum': The Human-Plant Exchanges
- Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like
- Hilma af Klint, Notebook 588, Blumen, Moose und Flechten [Flowers, Mosses, and Lichens], 1919/20
- Gitte Villesen, There is an Affinity. (Dioramas, Paludariums, Höch, France and Butler), 2019
- References
- List of Illustrations
- The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South
- Introduction
- 1. MADEYOULOOK: 'Black gardening' and restorative nostalgia
- 2. Athi-Patra Ruga: queering the postapartheid landscape
- 3. People's Parks: participatory landscaping against apartheid
- Conclusion
- References
- List of Illustrations
- Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies
- References
- Online References
- List of Illustrations
- 10. Quasi Objects
- Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art
- Introduction
- Stuff we know but don't see - Pollution and sea life
- Stuff we know but don't see - Destructive forces of capital and production
- Gerspacher / Dialectic of Entitlement and the Ecopolitics of Debt
- References
- List of Illustrations
- The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation
- The Line
- The Nylon Thread
- The Virtual Environment
- The Submarine Cable
- The Pipeline
- Conclusion
- References
- List of Illustrations
- Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect
- The Genesis of the impressionist Comma in Structurism
- An iconological Discursion: St. Jerome
- Analysis: Dürer's St. Jerome in the Wilderness
- Albrecht Altdorfer's Structurism
- An iconological Discursion: St. Catherine
- Analysis: Beheading of St. Catherine
- The absolute Structurism of the Master of the Historia
- The Structure(ing) of Nature today
- References
- List of Illustrations
- 11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation
- The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial
- THE COLLAPSE
- COLONY
- THE EUSOCIAL CATHEDRAL
- AUTHORIAN STIGMERGY
- THE COMPLEXITY OF LIFE
- TO DECONSTRUCT
- TO RECONSTRUCT
- "I HAVE A DESIRE FOR. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT. TO ALLOW ME TO DO. MY OWN THING"
- FUNGI
- BEEHIVES OF THE FUTURE
- THE IMPACT
- TO RETHINK
- Acknowledgements:
- References
- Online source
- List of Illustrations
- Return to Dilmun
- Polycinease
- Return to Dilmun
- References
- List of Illustrations
- Pyrexia
- List of Illustrations
- Spearlight
- List of Illustrations
- Appendix
- Acknowledgments
- List of Authors
