Since 2007, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture has been the international reference point of the non-human turn in the visual arts. This volume gathers the richest interviews and the most thought-provoking essays featured over its forty installments thus far published.
This original and entertaining tour of life on Earth explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, utilises fire, or has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop our culture to a level of complexity that outstrips any other observed in nature.
Contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.
Documentation from the DIY 13 project.
Explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
Published on the occasion of Beautiful Creatures at Oboro, March 9 – April 13, 2013.
Part of the Library of Performing Rights (LPR) (P3041).
Covering 21 countries and more than 250 artists, this text demonstrates the manner in which performance art in the region developed concurrently with the genre in the West, highlighting the unique contributions of Eastern European artists.
Part of the Study Room Guide on Live Art and Displacement (P3107).
Includes:
– MOMMA film 7’42”
– Family of the Future, 22’22”
– I Can’t Keep Silence Any More, 2’42”
– Missionary, London 2012, 5’28; Moscow, 1995, 5’38 and 2’20”
– Pavlov’s Dog, 3’49”
– Two Kuliks, 5’58
This text addresses demonstrates ways in which animals transform theatre’s capacity to make meaning, and suggests they expose theatre’s negotiations with wider ethical, social and economic questions.
Theoretical and creative interventions into the presence of the animal and ideas of animality in performance.