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Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the nexus of art and the biological sciences. She is the Chair of the Fine Arts Department at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Sabine Flach is a Professor of modern and contemporary art at the University of Graz, Austria, and Chair of the section Contemporary Art at the Departement of Art and Musicology, Universität Graz. She is member of the faculty at SVA, School of Visual Arts, NYC and Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati.
Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life Forms in Contemporary Art 9
The Lawn (Re)Disturbance Laboratory A Public Experiment in Collaboration with Seeds, Time, and Weeds http://nextepochseedlibrary.com/lawn/ 15
Saddening the Green: The Politics and Poetics of the South African Lawn 25
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Botanique: Undergoing Nature as a Pedagogy of Resistance to the Anthropocene 39
"The flowers, after all, didn't understand Greek": Plants, Politics, Poetics 51
The Potential of Ruderal Societies and Perfectly Provisional Areas in the Works of Lois Weinberger 67
Songs the Plants Taught us: Strange Entanglements of Vinyl Records and Horticulture 79
The Blue Rose 105
After Nature, Coding and Reading Plant Life 121
Not a Rose and the Impossibility to Be a Revolutionary and Not Like Flowers 125
Trojan Horse Manifesto 131
Human-Animal Studies - Bridging the lacuna between academia and society 137
Animal Artistic Agency: Contemporary Interspecies Art and Relational Aesthetics 149
Heads and/or Tails 165
Viscous, Molten, and Phased: Undergoing Nature with Non-Human Aesthetics, Hypo-objects, & Strange Tools 177
L'animal que donc je suis - Pierre Huyghe and Jacques Derrida 195
Revolutionary Flowers: Sex, Gender and Politics in Early Modern Dance 211
Critical Knowledge Practices from the Margins: Plants and the Like 231
The Art of Gardening in South Africa: Three Cases of Eco-Political Landscaping from the Global South 247
Tue Greenfort: Questioning Dichotomies 267
Questioning the Non-Human Other: Political Potentials of Living Beings in Contemporary Art 283
The Invisible Thread: The Materiality and Infrastructures of Digital Animal Observation 291
Tiny Plants (?) with Big Effect 307
The Eusocial Cathedral and the Buzzaar: A Novel Synthesis from De- and Reconstructing the Living and the Artificial 327
Return to Dilmun 355
Pyrexia 361
Spearlight 365
Acknowledgments 371
List of Authors 373