Surrounding the Living
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87 – The Living
The Living
Summer / Spring 2016
Due to art historians’ recent interest in the field of animal studies, as well as esse’s desire to contribute to awareness and transformation of humans’ relationship of domination with nature and the realm of the living, we were nevertheless encouraged to take a closer look at this phenomenon. We decided to address the subject through a non-anthropocentric perspective.
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Beyond Zoocentricism : An Interview with Giovanni Aloi
Engaging with Vegetable Others
From Critical Art to an Art of Reconciliation: Cohabitation with Non-Human Animals
Toward an Anti-Speciesist Aesthetic?
Fukushima’s Animal
Cultivating Connections: Michel Blazy’s Ecosystems in Motion
Humans on Display: A Subject Almost Like the Others
I am in animal
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Water
We now face a global water crisis. Warning signs are flashing everywhere about the increased desertification of the Earth, the industrial pollution of water resources, and the over-exploitation of aquifers. Faced with such a bleak portrait and the fact that environmental and humanitarian challenges are dependent on economic issues and interlinked policies, which are framed by complex laws, the influence of art is relatively modest. Nevertheless, alongside civic actions that we should actively do, artists can give back to water its symbolic and sacred value. Taking a poetical approach to water, the artists and theorists in this issue navigate between aesthetic forms, activist actions, and metaphor-rich analytical thinking. Adopting a resolutely critical perspective, the articles refer to artworks that try to raise awareness about water pollution and climate issues, envisage a restorative justice, and offer new horizons of hope.
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