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Contributor(s): Series: Documents of contemporary art seriesPublisher: London ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : Whitechapel Gallery, The MIT Press, 2016Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780854882496
  • 9780262529358
  • 0854882499
  • 0262529351
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Contents:
Fables -- Gazes -- Mutations -- Struggles.
Summary: Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, where diverse topical issues intersect. Observations of empathy among non-humans prompt reconsiderations of the human. Animals nonverbal communication has affinities with poetic expansion of the boundaries of language. And the freedom of animal life in the wild from capitalist structures suggests possible models 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.
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Artists surveyed include
Allora & Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Julieta Aranda, Brandon Ballengée, 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 García, Félix 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 228-231) and index.

Fables -- Gazes -- Mutations -- Struggles.

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, 2013 / 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, 1991 / 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.

Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, where diverse topical issues intersect. Observations of empathy among non-humans prompt reconsiderations of the human. Animals nonverbal communication has affinities with poetic expansion of the boundaries of language. And the freedom of animal life in the wild from capitalist structures suggests possible models 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.

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