Surrounding the Living
Summary
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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Plastics
Winter 2025
Analyzing plastic in the field of art runs the risk of raising many environmental dilemmas. Far from extolling plastic yet without denying its utility, this issue is interested in our ways of coexisting with synthetic material in order to evaluate the consequences and seek alternative solutions and to claim a kinship with what gives this material its glory: its plasticity, which expresses the power both to receive and to give form.
Cover: Dan Lam
Nibble, 2020.
Photo: courtesy of Dan Lam Studio, Dallas