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Zusatztext Giovanni Aloi makes an important contribution here to the non-human shift and invites us to renew the approach to inter-species relations. Speculative Taxidermy is a call to moderate our judgments and reflections and proposes a meticulous and in-depth examination as well of the history of the materialities as of the social history which could appear on and even "in" the skin of animals. Informationen zum Autor Giovanni Aloi is a lecturer in art history! theory! and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago! Sotheby's Institute of Art New York and London! and Tate Galleries. He is the author of Art and Animals (2011) and the founder and editor-in-chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Klappentext Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin! bones! and feathers in gallery spaces! films! and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships. Zusammenfassung Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly questions past and present ideas of human separation from the animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, and Cole Swanson, Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Prologue: The Carnal Immanence of Political Realism-Realism! Materiality! and Agency Introduction: New Taxidermy Surfaces in Contemporary Art 1. Reconfiguring Animal Skins: Fragmented Histories and Manipulated Surfaces 2. A Natural History Panopticon: Power! Representation! and Animal Objectification 3. Dioramas: Power! Realism! and Decorum 4. The End of the Daydream: Taxidermy and Photography 5. Following Materiality: From Medium to Surface-Medium Specificity and Animal Visibility in the Modern Age 6. The Allure of the Veneer: Aesthetics of Speculative Taxidermy 7. This Is Not a Horse: Biopower and Animal Skins in the Anthropocene Coda: Toward New Mythologies-the Ritual! the Sacrifice! the Interconnectedness Appendix: Some Notes Toward a Manifesto for Artists Working with and About Taxidermy Animals! by Mark Dion and Robert Marbury Notes Bibliography Index ...
