Becoming Animal Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom

Name: Becoming Animal Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom
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ISBN: 9780262201612

ISBN-10: 0262201615

ISBN-13: 9780262201612

Edition: 2005

Authors: Nato Thompson, Christoph Cox

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In an age when scientists say they can no longer specify the exact difference between human and animal, living and dead, many contemporary artists have chosen to use animals in their work -- as the ultimate "other," as metaphor, as reflection. The attempt to discover what is animal, not surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists investigate the shifting boundaries between animal and human. Their explorations may be a barometer of things to come. The works included in Becoming Animal-- which accompanies an exhibit at MASS MoCA -- range from the aviary and cabinet of curiosities of Mark Dion to the…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/17/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 140
Size: 10.25" wide x 10.31" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York--based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied.



Acknowledgments


Foreword



Monstrous Empathy



Of Humans, Animals, and Monsters



Works in the Exhibition and Interviews



Jane Alexander


Rachel Berwick


Brian Conley


Mark Dion


Sam Easterson


Kathy High


Natalie Jeremijenko


Nicolas Lampert


Liz Lerman


Michael Oatman


Motohiko Odani


Patricia Piccinini


Ann-Sofi Siden


Artist Biographies