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

Anker, Suzanne.

The Cultures of Entanglement : On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art. - 1st ed. - Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024. ©2024. - 1 online resource (377 pages) - Image Series . - Image Series .

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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.

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