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Why look at plants? : the botanical emergence in contemporary art / written and edited by Giovanni Aloi.

By: Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2019.Description: 306 pagesISBN:
  • 9789004409583
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Contents:
Introduction: Why Look at Plants? /  Giovanni Aloi -- 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest /  Giovanni Aloi -- 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role / Caroline Picard -- 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah /  Natasha Myers -- 4 An Open Book of Grass /  Jenny Kendler -- 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving /  Giovanni Aloi -- 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun and DNA /  Lucy Davis -- 7 Tree Wound Portraits /  Shannon Lee Castleman -- 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground /  Greg Ruffing -- 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 /  Lindsey French -- 10 Falling from Grace /  Giovanni Aloi -- 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind /  Wendy Wheeler -- 12 Eden’s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature /  Joela Jacobs -- 13 Thoreau’s Beans /  Michael Marder -- 14 The Greenhouse Effects /  Giovanni Aloi -- 15 Solarise /  Luftwerk -- 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin’s Glasshouse Study /  Heidi Norton -- 17 The Lichen Museum / Laurie Palmer -- 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life /  Giovanni Aloi -- 19 Life in the Aisles /  Linda Tegg -- 20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar /  Katherine Behar , Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley -- 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants / Various Contributors -- 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With /  Giovanni Aloi -- 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects /  Susan McHugh -- 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other /  Dawn Sanders -- 25 Plant Radio /  Amanda White -- 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics /  Giovanni Aloi -- 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies /  Monika Bakke -- 28 Boundary Plants /  Sara Black -- 29 The Illustrated Herbal /  Joshi Radin -- 30 (Brief) Encounters /  Giovanni Aloi -- 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast /  Andrew S. Yang -- 32 The Neophyte / Lois Weinberger -- 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion / Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi -- 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw / Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi -- 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda  /  Giovanni Aloi , Brian M. John , Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking 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.

Introduction: Why Look at Plants? /  Giovanni Aloi -- 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest /  Giovanni Aloi -- 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role / Caroline Picard -- 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah /  Natasha Myers -- 4 An Open Book of Grass /  Jenny Kendler -- 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving /  Giovanni Aloi -- 6 Animation, Animism … Dukun Dukun and DNA /  Lucy Davis -- 7 Tree Wound Portraits /  Shannon Lee Castleman -- 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground /  Greg Ruffing -- 9 Quercus velutina, Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 /  Lindsey French -- 10 Falling from Grace /  Giovanni Aloi -- 11 Hortus Conclusus: The Garden of Earthly Mind /  Wendy Wheeler -- 12 Eden’s Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature /  Joela Jacobs -- 13 Thoreau’s Beans /  Michael Marder -- 14 The Greenhouse Effects /  Giovanni Aloi -- 15 Solarise /  Luftwerk -- 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin’s Glasshouse Study /  Heidi Norton -- 17 The Lichen Museum / Laurie Palmer -- 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life /  Giovanni Aloi -- 19 Life in the Aisles /  Linda Tegg -- 20 Greenbots Where the Grass Is Greener: An Interview with Katherine Behar /  Katherine Behar , Fatma Çolakoğlu and Ulya Soley -- 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants / Various Contributors -- 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With /  Giovanni Aloi -- 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects /  Susan McHugh -- 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other /  Dawn Sanders -- 25 Plant Radio /  Amanda White -- 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics /  Giovanni Aloi -- 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies /  Monika Bakke -- 28 Boundary Plants /  Sara Black -- 29 The Illustrated Herbal /  Joshi Radin -- 30 (Brief) Encounters /  Giovanni Aloi -- 31 Places of Maybe: Plants “Making Do” Without the Belly of the Beast /  Andrew S. Yang -- 32 The Neophyte / Lois Weinberger -- 33 Herbarium Perrine: Interview with Mark Dion / Mark Dion and Giovanni Aloi -- 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw / Mat Collishaw and Giovanni Aloi -- 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda  /  Giovanni Aloi , Brian M. John , Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin -- Bibliography -- Index.

Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking 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.