Conversing with Matter
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New Materialisms
Winter 2021
By emphasizing the expressiveness of matter, its dynamism and its agentivity, neo-materialist theories distinguish themselves from classical materialist philosophy, which tends to perceive matter as being essentially passive and inert. This feature reflects on the reconfiguration of matter in the light of social, political, artistic and scientific practices that are no longer confined to the human spectrum, but concern the whole of "life," including the "non-living."
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The Ethics of Material Visibility
Monstrous Matter
A Many-Handed Practice
Cannibal Actif: The Artist Book as Threshold for Material Encounters
Material Expressivity in Active Materials
Beyond the Image: When the Materiality of the Photograph Eclipses Representation
Zero Sum: Kristiina Lahde’s Systems of Objects
Sinks and Spills: The Containment and Entanglements of Matter-Bodies in Frédéric-Back Park
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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