Surrounding the Living
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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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Current Issue
Crip
Spring Summer 2026
While “handi” (short for the term “handicapé” in French) and “crip” (derived from “cripple,” meaning “disabled”) are diminutive forms of stigmatizing terms, the meaning we ascribe to them is by no means reductive. On the contrary, they carry a political weight that provides those who embrace them with a powerful tool for empowerment, offering disabled artists non-normative ways for articulating the strange temporalities of disabled experience and alternative ways for navigating an ableist art world. In this issue, we are interested precisely in this work of social, political, and cultural transformation, and we focus on the ways in which crip authors and artists address the different challenges they face.
Cover: Hac Vinent
Accident, exhibition view, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2024.
Photo: Roberto Ruiz, courtesy of the artist & ADN Galeria, Barcelona