Sailor & Death Park

Fusco, Maria (2016) Sailor & Death Park. In: Animals. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262529358

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Abstract

Animals have become the focus of much recent art, informing numerous works and projects featured at major exhibitions including dOCUMENTA (13) (2013), the 10th Shanghai Biennale (2014), and the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Contemporary art has emerged as a privileged terrain for exploring interspecies relationships, providing the conditions for diverse disciplines and theoretical positions to engage with animal behavior and consciousness. This interest in animal nature reflects a number of current issues. Observations of empathy among nonhumans prompt reconsiderations of the human. The nonverbal communication of animals has been compared with poetic expansion of the boundaries of language. And the freedom of animal life in the wild from capitalist subordination is seen as a potential model for reconfiguring society and our relationship to the wider environment. Artists’ engagement with animals also opens up new perspectives on the dynamics of dominance, oppression, and exclusion, with parallels in human society. Animal nature is at the heart of debates on the Anthropocene era and the ecological concerns of scientists, thinkers, and artists alike.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	W800 Imaginative Writing
Department:	Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Arts
Related URLs:	Publisher
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2018 15:21
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 19:01
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/36027

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