Research Catalog

Title

Symbionts : contemporary artists and the biosphere / edited by Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell, Selby Nimrod.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Jones, Caroline A.
• Bell, Natalie
• Nimrod, Selby
• MIT List Visual Arts Center, host institution.

Description

264 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles, portrait; 24 cm

Summary

"Essays, conversations, selected texts, and a rich collection of thought-provoking artworks celebrate a revolution in bio art. Expertly designed by Omnivore and printed on special papers, including chlorophyll cover and crush citrus and crush cocoa pages...The texts and artworks in Symbionts provoke a necessary conversation about our species and its relation to the planet. Are we merely "mammalian weeds," as evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis put it? Or are we partners in producing and maintaining the biosphere, as she also suggested? Symbionts reflects on a recent revolution in bio art that departs from the late-1990s code-oriented experiments to embrace entanglement and symbiosis ("with-living"). Combining documentation of contemporary artworks with texts by leading thinkers, Symbionts, which accompanies an exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center, offers an expansive view of humanity's place on the planet. Color reproductions document works by international artists that respond to the revelation that planetary microbes construct and maintain our biosphere. A central essay by coeditor Caroline Jones sets their work in the context of larger discussions around symbiosis; additional essays, an edited roundtable discussion, and selected excerpts follow. Contributors explore, among other things, the resilient ecological knowledge of indigenous scholars and artists, and "biofiction," a term coined by Jones to describe the work of such theoretical biologists as Jacob von Uexküll as well as the witty parafictions of artist Anicka Yi. A playful glossary puts scientific terms in conversation with cultural ones." --

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
• Art and biology > Exhibitions
• Art and biology
• Art, Modern

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• "Realized in tandem with the exhibition, Symbionts: contemporary artists and the biosphere, October 21, 2022-February 26, 2023, MIT List Visual Arts Center"--Colophon.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).

Contents

Director's foreword / Paul C. Ha -- 1. Hologenome. Symbiontics: A polemic for our time / Caroline A. Jones -- In a topological condition / Sophia Roosth -- Margulis, autopoiesis, and sympoiesis / Brucke Clarke and Scott F. Gilbert -- Biospheric politics / Leah Aronowksy -- Attunement: Form in motion / Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing -- 2. Symbionts. Crystal Z Campbell -- Gilberto Esparza -- Jes Fan -- Pierre Huyghe -- Candice Lin -- Alan Michelson -- Nour Mobarak -- Claire Pentecost -- Špela Petrič -- Pamela Rosenkranz -- Miriam Simun -- Jenna Sutela -- Kiyan Williams -- Anicka Yi -- 3. Biome. Symbiosis, reciprocity, and indigenous epistemologies: A conversation -- The honorable harvest / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- Big trouble in biology / Lynn Margulis -- The force of the pacemaker concept / Evelyn Fox Keller -- 4. Mycorrhiza. Glossary -- Bibliography -- Works in the exhibition -- Contributions

Call Number

JQE 23-55

ISBN

• 0262544482
• 9780262544481

OCLC

1290376482

Title

Symbionts : contemporary artists and the biosphere / edited by Caroline A. Jones, Natalie Bell, Selby Nimrod.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2022]

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-257).

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Jones, Caroline A., editor.

Bell, Natalie, editor.

Nimrod, Selby, editor.

MIT List Visual Arts Center, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQE 23-55