Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art /
Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art /
written and edited by Giovanni Aloi.
- 1 online resource.
- Critical plant studies : philosophy, literature, culture, Volume 5 2213-0659 ; Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350 .
- Critical Plant Studies 5. Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353350. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Why Look at Plants? / 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest / 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role / 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah / 4 An Open Book of Grass / 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving / 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun and DNA / 7 Tree Wound Portraits / 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground / 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 / 10 Falling from Grace / 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind / 12 Eden’s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature / 13 Thoreau’s Beans / 14 The Greenhouse Effects / 15 Solarise / 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin’s Glasshouse Study / 17 The Lichen Museum / 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life / 19 Life in the Aisles / 20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar / 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants / 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With / 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects / 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other / 25 Plant Radio / 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics / 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies / 28 Boundary Plants / 29 The Illustrated Herbal / 30 (Brief) Encounters / 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast / 32 The Neophyte / 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion / 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw / 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda / Bibliography -- Index. Giovanni Aloi -- Giovanni Aloi -- Caroline Picard -- Natasha Myers -- Jenny Kendler -- Giovanni Aloi -- Lucy Davis -- Shannon Lee Castleman -- Greg Ruffing -- Lindsey French -- Giovanni Aloi -- Wendy Wheeler -- Joela Jacobs -- Michael Marder -- Giovanni Aloi -- Luftwerk -- Heidi Norton -- Laurie Palmer -- Giovanni Aloi -- Linda Tegg -- Katherine Behar , Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley -- Various Contributors -- Giovanni Aloi -- Susan McHugh -- Dawn Sanders -- Amanda White -- Giovanni Aloi -- Monika Bakke -- Sara Black -- Joshi Radin -- Giovanni Aloi -- Andrew S. Yang -- Lois Weinberger -- Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi -- Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi -- Giovanni Aloi , Brian M. John , Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin --
Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant’s fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.
9789004375253
10.1163/9789004375253 DOI
2018041943
Plants in art.
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--20th century
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--21st century
Plants and civilization.
NX650.P53 / W49 2018
700/.464
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- Introduction: Why Look at Plants? / 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest / 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role / 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah / 4 An Open Book of Grass / 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving / 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun and DNA / 7 Tree Wound Portraits / 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground / 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 / 10 Falling from Grace / 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind / 12 Eden’s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature / 13 Thoreau’s Beans / 14 The Greenhouse Effects / 15 Solarise / 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin’s Glasshouse Study / 17 The Lichen Museum / 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life / 19 Life in the Aisles / 20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar / 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants / 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With / 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects / 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other / 25 Plant Radio / 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics / 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies / 28 Boundary Plants / 29 The Illustrated Herbal / 30 (Brief) Encounters / 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast / 32 The Neophyte / 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion / 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw / 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda / Bibliography -- Index. Giovanni Aloi -- Giovanni Aloi -- Caroline Picard -- Natasha Myers -- Jenny Kendler -- Giovanni Aloi -- Lucy Davis -- Shannon Lee Castleman -- Greg Ruffing -- Lindsey French -- Giovanni Aloi -- Wendy Wheeler -- Joela Jacobs -- Michael Marder -- Giovanni Aloi -- Luftwerk -- Heidi Norton -- Laurie Palmer -- Giovanni Aloi -- Linda Tegg -- Katherine Behar , Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley -- Various Contributors -- Giovanni Aloi -- Susan McHugh -- Dawn Sanders -- Amanda White -- Giovanni Aloi -- Monika Bakke -- Sara Black -- Joshi Radin -- Giovanni Aloi -- Andrew S. Yang -- Lois Weinberger -- Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi -- Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi -- Giovanni Aloi , Brian M. John , Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin --
Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking and fascinating look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art. Through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work, this volume maps and problematizes new intra-active, agential interconnectedness involving human-non-human biosystems central to artistic and philosophical discourses of the Anthropocene. Plant’s fixity, perceived passivity, and resilient silence have relegated the vegetal world to the cultural background of human civilization. However, the recent emergence of plants in the gallery space constitutes a wake-up-call to reappraise this relationship at a time of deep ecological and ontological crisis. Why Look at Plants? challenges readers’ pre-established notions through a diverse gathering of insights, stories, experiences, perspectives, and arguments encompassing multiple disciplines, media, and methodologies.
9789004375253
10.1163/9789004375253 DOI
2018041943
Plants in art.
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--20th century
Arts, Modern--Themes, motives.--21st century
Plants and civilization.
NX650.P53 / W49 2018
700/.464