The Cultures of Entanglement : : On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art / / ed. by Suzanne Anker, Sabine Flach.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2024 ENG
• MitwirkendeR: Anker, Suzanne,; Cane, Jonathan,; Dierendonck, Roland van,; Flach, Sabine,; Gerspacher, Arnaud,; Gillette, Frank,; Harris, Mark,; Hatry, Heide,; Holland, Kristopher J.,; Ilgün, Asya,; Irons, Ellie,; Kessler, Mathias,; Kompatscher, Gabriela,; Lee, Chonja,; Loreck, Hanne,; Muffatto, Federico,; Petschko, Hansjörg,; Rickli, Hannes,; Schmickl, Thomas,; Seyfried, Günter,; Sherman, Gary,; Stadlober, Margit,; Szopek, Martina,; Ullrich, Jessica,; Walter, Karoline,
• HerausgeberIn: Anker, Suzanne,; Flach, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2024]; 2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 233
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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/ --; 2. Submergence --; Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn --; 3. Out of the Garden --; Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene --; “The flowers, after all, didn’t understand Greek”: Plants, Politics, Poetics --; 4. The Social Order of Plants --; The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger --; Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture --; 5. Flora --; The Blue Rose --; After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life --; Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers --; Trojan Horse Manifesto --; 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 --; Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics --; Heads and/or Tails --; 7. Shifting to Non-Human Aesthetic --; Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools --; L’animal que donc je suis – Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida --; 8. The Turning: Soil, Plants and Human Imagination --; Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance --; 9. ‘Theatrum Botanicum’: The Human-Plant Exchanges --; Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like --; The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South --; Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies --; 10. Quasi Objects --; Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art --; The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation --; Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect --; 11. Beyond Nature: Artistic Transmutation --; The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial --; Return to Dilmun --; Pyrexia --; Spearlight --; Appendix --; Acknowledgments --; List of Authors
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839468050; 9783111513218; 9783111513164; 9783111332376
• DOI: 10.1515/9783839468050?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Suzanne Anker, Sabine Flach.

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?