In the 1990s, Hal Foster observed that ethnographic or politicized art practices were diverging from a neo-avant-gardiste precedent: an investment in the remobilization of historic
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A Withdrawing Vital Material
Taking the plight of the British honeybee as a point of departure, this article considers the coded implications, organic materiality, and medium-specificity of honey by
‘You Must Carry Me Now’
Review of Mark Wilson and Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir’s exhibition catalogue: You Must Carry Me Now – The Cultural Lives of Endangered Species http://www.antennae.org.uk/reviews-carry-me/4592226216
Poetic Spaces, Baroque Contexts, Differential Habitats
‘…artifice was considered by Des Esseintes to be the distinctive mark of human genius. Nature, he used to say, has had her day…’ (22). The
Gastronomic Worldviews of Transubstantiation
Review of Cecelia Novero’s book: Antidiets of the Avant-garde: From Futurist Cooking to Eat Art http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpar20/19/1
Meal Time as Medium: Duration and the Work of AO&
This article takes the work of the Austrian collective AO& as its primary case study. Immanuel Kant’s concept of ‘civilized bliss’, as considered by Peter