Life Is Other: A/Biotic Entanglements in Art and Curating

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Life Is Other

A/Biotic Entanglements in Art and Curating

Edited by: Thomas Feuerstein , Jens Hauser and Lucie Strecker

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Between animate and inanimate matter

This book presents artistic and theoretical positions that deal with the dynamics of and points of transition between animate and inanimate matter. Following on from the exhibition Holobiont: Life Is Other (Bregenz/Vienna, 2021/2022), it explores how art, philosophy, and the technological sciences destabilize and expand the concept of living things. How do biological entities, machines, media, architectures, networks develop symbiotically in the context of biotechnological possibilities and ecological challenges?

The Holobiont theory of biologist Lynn Margulis opens up new perspectives on life as a cooperative, holistic system: The “other” is not assimilated, integrated; instead it is preserved in its unavailability and peculiarity as new connections emerge.

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Selection of current artistic works on a/biotic processes
Contextualization by contemporary theorists and artists
Contributions by Bruno Clarke, Monika Bakke, Eduardo Kac, Dorion Sagan, Astrid Schrader, Paul Vanouse, and others

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Lucie Strecker, University of Applied Arts Vienna

Thomas Feuerstein, art historian, philosopher

Jens Hauser, curator, media/art scholar

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Table of Contents
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Introduction: Toward a General “Holobiontics”? Beyond Selfism and Anthropocentrism
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Thomas Feuerstein, Jens Hauser and Lucie Strecker

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Art and Metabolic Force in Deep-Time Environments
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Monika Bakke

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From Symbols to Metabols: Capacity for Synthesis in the Visual Arts
46
Anett Holzheid and Thomas Feuerstein

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Symbiosis and the Holobiont: The Message of Mixotricha paradoxa
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Bruce Clarke

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Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries
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Eduardo Kac

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Labor: Work, Difference, and the Post-Anthropocentric Body
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Paul Vanouse

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Entangled Voices: How Oral Microbes and Speech Intertwine
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Klaus Spiess

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HYBRID FAMILY: An Exchange on the Possibilities of mOtherhood
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Jens Hauser and Maja Smrekar

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Re-Entangled Cohabitation: Immersed in Planetary Matter a New World is Unfolding. Can You Feel the Ecstatic Sensation of Alien Copresence?
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Sylvia Eckermann and Gerald Nestler

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Art and Life, or Carving the Atmosphere
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Dorion Sagan

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Index of Digital Contents
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Index of Names
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Acknowledgments
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Imprint
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December 2, 2024

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224

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783689240110

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Contemporary art; artistic research; transdisciplinary art; philosophy; science and technology studies; Holobiont (Lynn Margulis)

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Readers interested in contemporary art, artistic research, humanities and natural sciences; artists, curators

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Life Is Other

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction: Toward a General “Holobiontics”? Beyond Selfism and Anthropocentrism

Art and Metabolic Force in Deep-Time Environments

From Symbols to Metabols: Capacity for Synthesis in the Visual Arts

Symbiosis and the Holobiont: The Message of Mixotricha paradoxa

Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries

Labor: Work, Difference, and the Post-Anthropocentric Body

Entangled Voices: How Oral Microbes and Speech Intertwine

HYBRID FAMILY: An Exchange on the Possibilities of mOtherhood

Re-Entangled Cohabitation: Immersed in Planetary Matter a New World is Unfolding. Can You Feel the Ecstatic Sensation of Alien Copresence?

Art and Life, or Carving the Atmosphere

Index of Digital Contents

Index of Names

Acknowledgments

Imprint

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