Spearlight

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art 9
4. The Hothouse Archives: Plants, Pods and Panama Red
5. 1. Weeds and the Unrequited
6. The Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds http://nextepochseedlibrary.com/lawn/ 15
7. 2. Submergence
8. Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn 25
9. 3. Out of the Garden
10. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene 39
11. “The flowers, after all, didn’t understand Greek”: Plants, Politics, Poetics 51
12. 4. The Social Order of Plants
13. The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger 67
14. Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture 79
15. 5. Flora
16. The Blue Rose 105
17. After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life 121
18. Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers 125
19. Trojan Horse Manifesto 131
20. Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Art
21. 6. Animals and the Ethics of Art
22. Human-Animal Studies – Bridging the lacuna between academia and society 137
23. Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics 149
24. Heads and/or Tails 165
25. 7. Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetic
26. Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools 177
27. L’animal que donc je suis – Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida 195
28. 8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination
29. Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance 211
30. 9. ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human-Plant Exchanges
31. Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like 231
32. The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South 247
33. Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies 267
34. 10. Quasi Objects
35. Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art 283
36. The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation 291
37. Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect 307
38. 11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation
39. The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial 327
40. Return to Dilmun 355
41. Pyrexia 361
42. Spearlight 365
43. Appendix
44. Acknowledgments 371
45. List of Authors 373