
- 293 pages
- English
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Animism in Art and Performance
About this book
This book exploresM?ori 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 'animacy'. It comprises a diverse array of essays divided into four sections: Indigenous Animacies, Atmospheric Animations, Animacy Hierarchies and Sensational Animisms. Cassandra Barnett discusses artists Terri Te Tau and Bridget Reweti and how personhood and hau (life breath) traverse art-taonga. Artist Natalie Robertson addresses k?rero (talk) with ancestors through photography. Janine Randerson and sound artist Rachel Shearer consider the sun as animate with mauri (life force), while Anna Gibb explores life in the algorithm. Rebecca Schneider and Amelia Jones discuss animacy in queered and raced formations. Stephen Zepke explores Deleuze and Guattari's animist hylozoism and Amelia Barikin examines a mineral ontology of art. This book will appeal to readers interested in indigenous and non-indigenous entanglements and those who seek different approaches to new materialism, the post-human and the anthropocene.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction: Animism and Animacies
- Part I Indigenous Animacies
- Chapter 2 Te Tuna-Whiri: The Knot of Eels
- Chapter 3 Activating Photographic Mana Rangatiratanga Through Kōrero
- Chapter 4 Dark Sun: Solar Frequencies, Solar Affects
- Part II Atmospheric Animations
- Chapter 5 Language as a Life Form
- Chapter 6 The Storm and the Still in the Art of Bridie Lunney
- Chapter 7 Animate Atmospheres: Art at the Edge of Materiality
- Part III Animacy Hierarchies
- Chapter 8 Intra-inanimation
- Chapter 9 Animacies and Performativity
- Chapter 10 Animism, Animacy and Participation in the Performances of Darcell Apelu
- Chapter 11 Exploring Posthuman Masquerade and Becoming
- Part IV Sensational Animisms
- Chapter 12 The Animist Readymade: Towards a Vital Materialism of Contemporary Art
- Chapter 13 Sound Fossils and Speaking Stones: Towards a Mineral Ontology of Contemporary Art
- Index
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