Animism in Art and Performance
This book explores Māori indigenous and non-indigenous scholarship corresponding with the term ‘animism’. In addressing visual, media and performance art, it explores the dualisms of people and things, as well as 'who' or 'what' is credited with 'ani
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CHRISTOPHER BRADDOCK
ANIMISM IN ART AND PERFORMANCE
Animism in Art and Performance “What beings are alive? What constitutes ‘alive’? Timely questions, in particular to the notion of nonhuman lifeforms in a time of mass extinction; the ecological resonance of the term ‘survive’, which is often mistaken for ‘alive’, and the question of how indigenous cultures matter today, cultures where the concept ‘inanimate object’ don’t hold sway. Where such questions start and stop, who gets to have them and why, are the subject of this wide ranging and learned book”. —Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University, USA, and author of Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence “It’s imperative that contemporary discussions of the ‘liveliness’ of the nonhuman world come to terms with indigenous epistemological frameworks. Putting the practices of contemporary art and theory based in European traditions to the test of rigorous dialogue with Māori ways of seeing and knowing, Animism in Art & Performance advances the conversation considerably, making terrific contributions to art history, cultural studies, and the range of theoretical tendencies grouped under the heading ‘new materialism’”. —Rebecca Zorach, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art and Art History, Northwestern University, USA, and author of The Passionate Triangle “Animism in Art & Performance demonstrates a unique instance of dual sovereignty emerging in academia. By engaging Māori, Pacifika and other academic frameworks (of interpretation, of embodiment, of performativity, and of materiality), this book offers the reader a model for critically engaged, culturally entangled, art writing. In arguments that demonstrate time and again the anti-humanism of the subject/object divide, and the anti-ecological practices that necessarily derive from that inherently exploitative relationship, several authors deploy Karen Barad’s provocative question, ‘Who gets to count as one who has the ability to die?’ The answer, in this case, is a constellation of artworks that shimmer with life”. —Hannah B Higgins, Professor of Art History, University of Illinois, USA, and author of The Grid Book
Christopher Braddock Editor
Animism in Art and Performance
Editor Christopher Braddock School of Art and Design Auckland University of Technology Auckland, New Zealand
ISBN 978-3-319-66549-8 ISBN 978-3-319-66550-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-66550-4 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950690 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, re
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