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"Since its first staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infante's riveting piece of experimental performance art, has expanded philosophical thinking into a fully-fledged artistic inquiry into nonanthropocentric being. Bringing together an array of scholars, poets, and artists, Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking reconsiders the roles that plants in art can play in productively reconfiguring human-nonhuman relations within current anthropogenic perspectives"--
List of contents
Introduction
Giovanni Aloi
The Right of the Other: Interpretation in Four Acts
Michael Marder
Thinking in the World:
Estado Vegetal as Thought-Apparatus
Maaike Bleeker
Theatre as Thinking, Art as Nonknowledge
Lucy Cotter
Vegetal Mythologies: Potted Plants and Storymaking
Giovanni Aloi
Attending to “Plantness” in
Estado Vegetal Dawn Sanders
“I Can’t Move”: Plants and the Politics of Mobility in
Estado Vegetal Catriona Sandilands and Prudence Gibson
Feminist Structures: Polyphonic Networks
Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem
Soledad: After
Estado Vegetal Mandy-Suzanne Wong
In Conversation
Manuela Infante and Giovanni Aloi
Estado Vegetal Manuela Infante with Marcela Salinas
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index
About the author
Giovanni Aloi teaches art history, theory, and criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is author or editor of many books on the nonhuman and art, including
Botanical Speculations: Plants in Contemporary Art;Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art; and
Lucian Freud Herbarium.
