The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art

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The Cultures of Entanglement

On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art

Edited by: Suzanne Anker and Sabine Flach

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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An exploration of how the arts seek access to the world independently of man, focusing on nonhuman actors.

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Flach Sabine :

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art Suzanne Anker and Sabine Flach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	9
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/ Ellie Irons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	15
2. Submergence
Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn Jonathan Cane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
3. Out of the Garden
Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene Kristopher J. Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
“The flowers, after all, didn’t understand Greek”: Plants, Politics, Poetics Sabine Flach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
4. The Social Order of Plants
The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger Karoline Walter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture Mark Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
5. Flora
The Blue Rose Suzanne Anker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life Mathias Kessler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	121
Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers Heide Hatry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
Trojan Horse Manifesto Heide Hatry Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	131
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 Gabriela Kompatscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	137
Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics Jessica Ullrich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Heads and/or Tails Gary Sherman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
7. Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetic
Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools Kristopher J. Holland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
L’animal que donc je suis – Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida Sabine Flach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination
Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance Chonja Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
9. ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human-Plant Exchanges
Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like Hanne Loreck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South Jonathan Cane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies Karoline Walter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	267
10. Quasi Objects
Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art Mathias Kessler and Arnaud Gerspacher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	283
The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation Hannes Rickli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	291
Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect Margit Stadlober Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation
The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial Asya Ilgün, Martina Szopek and Thomas Schmickl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	327
Return to Dilmun Günter Seyfried, Roland van Dierendonck, Hansjörg Petschko and Federico Muffatto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	355
Pyrexia Suzanne Anker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Spearlight Frank Gillette Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	365
Appendix
Acknowledgments Suzanne Anker and Sabine Flach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	371
List of Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	373

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March 4, 2024

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9783839468050

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376

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43

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56

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43 schw.-w. u. 56 farb. Abb.

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