Animals / edited by Filipa Ramos.

Contributor(s):

Ramos, Filipa [editor.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublication details: London ; Cambridge, MA : Whitechapel Gallery, The MIT Press, 2016.Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmISBN:

9780262529358 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0262529351 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Uniform titles:

Animals (M.I.T. Press)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

709.04 WHI

Contents:

Introduction: Art across species and being / Filipa Ramos -- FABLES. Some animals, 2016 / Joan Jonas -- The ant and the reclining beauty, 2013 / Michael Stevenson and Jan Verwoert -- Death park, 2010 / Maria Fusco -- True dog stories, 1930 / Walter Benjamin -- Of cats, dreams and interior knowledge, 1989 / Carolee Schneemann -- The octopus in love, 2014 / Chus Martinez -- The definitively unfinished taxonomy of Marcel Dzama\'s archetypes and themes, 2013 / Bradley Bailey -- Pense-bête, 1963-64 / Marcel Broodthaers -- Still more changes, 1929 / Henri Michaux -- Human problems, 2006 / Hari Kunzru -- A pig\'s life, 2003 / Ingo Niermann -- The story of a bear-lady in a sand cave, 2011 / Haegue Yang -- Oh the animals of language, 2014 / Jean-Luc Nancy -- GAZES. Why look at animals, 1977 / John Berger -- Chessboards and brambles, 2013 / Vincent Normand -- Oh, tongue, 2003 / Simone Forti -- The paradox of the phasmid, 1998 / Georges Didi-Huberman -- Taxonomies, 2002 / Giorgio Agamben -- The animal that therefore I am, 2006 / Jacques Derrida -- The illumination of the animal kingdom: The role of light and electricity in animal representation, 2001/ Jonathan Burt -- From hypnosis to animals, 2009 / Raymond Bellour -- A global cinematic zone of animal and technology / Seung-Hoon Jeong -- The one you feed: Stories and images in the work of Rodel Tapaya, 2015 / David Elliott -- Hurting horses, 2005 / Robert Morris -- The post-human animal, 2015 / Ana Teixeira Pinto --

MUTATIONS. Percept, affect, concept / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari -- Of humans, animals and monsters, 2005 / Christoph Cox -- Becoming something else, 2014 / Marcus Coates -- What is it like to be a bat?, 1974 / Thomas Nagel -- Cosmological deixis and Amerindian perspectivism, 1998 / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro -- Creatures, 1960 / Lygia Clark -- Lea Porsager squirming her way through Gurdjieff\'s work with a certain impoliteness, 2013 / Milena Hoegsberg -- Great apes, 1997 / Will Self -- Sailor, 2013 / Maria Fusco -- Mémoires de la jungle, 2010 / Tristan Garcia -- Unbecoming, animal, 2015 / Mitchell Akiyama -- The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy, 2008 / Rachel Poliquin -- Is humour human?, 2012 / Simon Critchley -- The hands of Beuys and Heidegger, 2000 / Steve Baker -- STRUGGLES. The meaning is confused spatially, framed, 1999 / Mike Kelley -- The supernormal animal, 2015 / Brian Massumi -- Outfitting the laboratory of the symbolic, 2008 / Claire Pentecost -- Companion species manifesto: Dogs, people and significant otherness, 2003 / Donna J. Haraway -- Dogs and the city, 2010 / Miwon Kwon -- A race of wolves, 2014 / Carla Freccero -- The tiger and the theodolite: George Coleman\'s dream of extinction, 2007 / Kevin Chua -- Birds, 1997 / Jimmie Durham -- The great silence, 2015 / Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang -- The new left within heterotopia, 2014 / Chan Koonchung.

Summary: Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions. Contemporary art has become a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behaviour and consciousness. Artists\' engagement with animals opens up new perspectives on the dynamics of dominance, oppression and exclusion, with parallels in human society; and animal nature is at the heart of debates on the \'anthropocene\' era and the ecological concerns of scientists, thinkers and artists alike. Centred on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of its principal points of convergence.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	709.04 WHI (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		39002100626630

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.

Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behavior and consciousness.

This interest in animal nature reflects a number of current issues. Observations of empathy among nonhumans prompt reconsiderations of the human. The nonverbal communication of animals has been compared with poetic expansion of the boundaries of language. And the freedom of animal life in the wild from capitalist subordination is seen as a potential model for reconfiguring society and our relationship to the wider environment. Artists' engagement with animals also opens up new perspectives on the dynamics of dominance, oppression, and exclusion, with parallels in human society. Animal nature is at the heart of debates on the Anthropocene era and the ecological concerns of scientists, thinkers, and artists alike. Centered on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of the principal points of convergence.

Artists surveyed include
Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Al s, Julieta Aranda, Brandon Ballengee, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Lygia Clark, Marcus Coates, Jimmie Durham, Marcel Dzama, Simone Forti, Pierre Huyghe, Natalie Jeremijenko, Joan Jonas, Eduardo Kac, Mike Kelley, Henri Michaux, Robert Morris, Henrik Olesen, Lea Porsager, Julia Reodica, Carolee Schneemann, Michael Stevenson, Rodel Tapaya, Rosemarie Trockel, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Haegue Yang, Adam Zaretsky

Writers include
Giorgio Agamben, Steve Baker, Raymond Bellour, Walter Benjamin, John Berger, Jonathan Burt, Ted Chiang, Simon Critchley, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, David Elliott, Carla Freccero, Maria Fusco, Tristan Garcia, Felix Guattari, Donna J. Haraway, Seung-Hoon Jeong, Miwon Kwon, Chus Martinez, Brian Massumi, Thomas Nagel, Jean-Luc Nancy, Ingo Niermann, Vincent Normand, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Will Self, Jan Verwoert, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-231) and index.

Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions. Contemporary art has become a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behaviour and consciousness. Artists\' engagement with animals opens up new perspectives on the dynamics of dominance, oppression and exclusion, with parallels in human society; and animal nature is at the heart of debates on the \'anthropocene\' era and the ecological concerns of scientists, thinkers and artists alike. Centred on contemporary artworks, this anthology attests to the trans-disciplinary nature of this subject, with art as one of its principal points of convergence.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Filipa Ramos is editor-in-chief of art-agenda and a Lecturer in Experimental Film at Kingston University and Moving Image at Central Saint Martins, London. She is the author of Lost and Found- Crisis of Memory in Contemporary Art (2009).