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Animals
Editor: Filipa Ramos | Reference: P3739 | ISBN: 978-0854882496 | Type: Publication

The emergence of contemporary art, engaging widely with other disciplines, as a platform for exploring animal nature.

AdamZaretsky Adriano Sack Allora & Calzadilla Ana Teixeira Pinto Anthropocene Apichatpong Weerasethakul behaviour Brando Ballengée Brian Massumi Carla Freccero Carolee Schneemann Chus Martínez consciousness criticism David Elliott dominance Donna Haraway Donna J. Haraway ecology Eduardo Kac Eduardo Viveiros de Castro exclusion Félix Guattari Francis Alys Gilles Deleuze Giorgio Agamben Haegue Yang Henri Michaux Henrik Olesen Ingo Niermann interspecies Jacques Derrida Jan Verwoert Jean-Luc Nancy Jimmie Durham Joan Jonas John Berger Jonathan Burt Joseph Beuys Julieta Aranda Lea Porsager Lygia Clark Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Dzama Marcus Coates Maria Fusco Michael Stevenson Mike Kelley Miwon Kwon Natalie Jeremijenko AO oppression Pierre Huyghe politics Raymond Bellour Robert Morris Rodel Tapaya Rosemarie Trockel science Seung-Hoon Jeong Simon Critchley Simone Forti society species Steve Baker Ted Chiang theory Thomas Nagel Tristan Garcia Vincent Normand Walter Benjamin Will Self

Animal: Exploring the Zoological World
Artist/Author: James Hanken | Reference: P3713 | ISBN: 978-0714876818 | Type: Publication

A broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind’s ongoing fascination with animals. This carefully curated selection of images, chosen by an international panel of experts, delves into our shared past to tell the story of animal life.

cave painting Charles Darwin companionship Conrad Gesner danger food history illustration John James Audubon photography power science technology visual art wonder

The Future
Artist/Author: Marc Augé | Reference: P3727 | ISBN: 9781781685662 | Type: Publication

It is to the future that we look for redemption and progress; but it is also where we project our personal and apocalyptic anxieties. By questioning notions of certainty, truth, and totality, Augé finds ways to separate the future from our eternal, terrified present and liberates the mind to allow it to conceptualize our possible futures afresh.

collective education faith fear Flaubert individual Non-Places past philosophy present science temporality theory time

The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us
Artist/Author: Adam Rutherford | Reference: P3657 | ISBN: 978-0297609407 | Type: Publication

This original and entertaining tour of life on Earth explores how many of the things once considered to be exclusively human are not: we are not the only species that communicates, makes tools, utilises fire, or has sex for reasons other than to make new versions of ourselves. Evolution has, however, allowed us to develop our culture to a level of complexity that outstrips any other observed in nature.

Alice Roberts animal biology culture evolution human nature non-human science

When Species Meet
Artist/Author: Donna J. Haraway | Reference: P3658 | ISBN: 978-0816650460 | Type: Publication

Contemplates the interactions of humans with many kinds of critters, especially with those called domestic.

activism agility animal Anthropocene Australia baboon bahviour biosociality CAT chicken companionship contact zones dog dog breeder ecology emergence encounter genetic diversity human exceptionalism humanism humankind killing lab animal language love microorganism nature philosophy posthumanism sacrifice science sheep suffering theory therapy dog training whale wolf

Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation
Artist/Author: Sunaura Taylor | Reference: P3661 | ISBN: 978-1620971284 | Type: Publication

How much of what we understand of ourselves as “human” depends on our physical and mental abilities—how we move (or cannot move) in and interact with the world? And how much of our definition of “human” depends on its difference from “animal”?

Part of the Library of Performing Rights (P3041)

able-bodied activism advocacy animal advocacy crip cripping disability ethics farming human rights justice memoir oppression philosophy politics science vulnerability

Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance: Politics, Ecologies and Perceptions
Artist/Author: Silvia Battista | Reference: P3648 | ISBN: 978-3319897578 | Type: Publication

Examines five performance/artworks: The Artist is Present (2010) by Marina Abramović; The Deer Shelter Skyscape (2007) by James Turrell; CAT (1998) by Ansuman Biswas; Journey to the Lower World by Marcus Coates (2004); and the work with pollen by Wolfgang Laib.

agency ambiguity Ansuman Biswas apparatus attention audience becoming body boundaries CAT consciousness creativity criticism divine ecology embodiment environment experience feminism gallery gazing hermeneutics human imagination inside introspection James Turrell journey Karen Barad knowledge language Marcus Coates Marina Abramović material materiality matter meditation Michel Foucault mind nature numinousity pain perception performance perspective pollen possibility Quakerism religion Rudolf Otto sacred space science self silence skin spectatorship spirituality theatre theory time Wolfgang Laib worship

Transitional States: Hormones at the Crossroads of Art and Science
Editor: Chiara Beccalossi | Reference: P3554 | Type: Publication

Exhibition catalogue. Locations and dates: Project Space Plus, Lincoln, UK (1 – 27 February 2018), Peltz Gallery, London, UK (10 May – 11 June 2018), Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Spain
(4 – 28 October 2018), LABS Gallery Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy (22 November – 15 December 2018)

3D animation birth control body Camila Levy Daniel documentary fluidity Fox & Owl gender gender identity Gérard Chauvin Holly Slingsby Immaginare T infrared video Jennie Pedley Juliet Jacques Ker Wallwork Lanah Shaï Leyla de la Hoz Mango Chijo Tree Marianna Simnett Marne Lucas Mary Maggic medicalisation medicine menopause music video Orlando Myxx Pedro Giacomolli performance for camera Raju Rage Sarah Homewood science sexuality stop motion The Jayder video art women Zaya Barroso

Touch Me Festival 2017
Editor: Mónica Bello, Tereza Teklic | Reference: P3431 | Type: Publication

Festival / exhibition catalogue. 6-18 October 2017.

In Croatian and English.

Ale de la Puente Alfonso Borragán Ana Sladetić CERN Croatia documentation environment Filip Borelli imagination Iva Ćurić Kerstin Ergenzinger knowledge Kontejner language Martin Howse Martina Zelenika Mónica Bello moon Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka NikaJurlin perception science Semiconductor technology Vanessa Lorenzo visual art Yunchul Kim Zagreb

Blood: Life Uncut
Artist/Author: Sabrina Mahfouz | Reference: P3416 | Type: Publication

Poetic responses to artworks in the eponymous exhibition at King's College London and Copeland Gallery.

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