Oceans / edited by Pandora Syperek and Sarah Wade.

Other author Syperek, Pandora.
Other author Wade, Sarah (Radio producer).
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLondon : Whitechapel Gallery ; Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2023.
Description239 pages ; 21 cm.
Supplemental ContentFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects

Uniform titleOceans (MIT Press)
SeriesDocuments of contemporary art
Documents of contemporary art series. ^A715739
Contents Bodies (in and out) of water. The grey beginnings / Rachel Carson (1951) -- The ocean in us / Epeli Hau'afa (1998) -- Beyond essentialism ; contemporary moana art from Aotearoa New Zealand / Lana Lopesi (2018) -- Oceans / Tania Kovats (2014) -- Marine lover of Friedrich Nietzsche / Luce Irigaray (1980) -- Bodies of water / Astrida Neimanis (2017) -- How to make an ocean / Kasia Molga (2023) -- Priority to indigenous pleasures / Léuli Eshrāgi (2021) -- Submerged bodies ; the tidalectics of representability and the sea in Caribbean art / Elizabeth DeLoughrey and Tatiana Flores (2020) -- Ideas para siluetas (Ideas for silhouettes) / Ana Mendieta (1976-78) -- The harbours of England / John Ruskin (1856) -- The war, Cornwall, and artist in landscape 1939-1946 / Barbara Hepworth (1952) -- The death swamps (or a pond with in an ocean) / Eleanor Morgan (2023) -- Heidi Bucher : a work illuminated by the senses / Chus Martínez (2022).
Contents Aquatic imaginaries. Mad love / Ann Elias (2019) -- Sea-deep / Eileen Agar (undated) -- 'Be abstracted' : on Paul Thek's artistic oeuvre / Marietta Franke (1995) -- Playing Moby Dick / Barbara Kutis (2020) -- According to Shuvinai / Tarralik Duffy (2021) -- Drexciya as spectre / Kodwo Eshun (2013) -- Ellen Gallagher's confounding myths / Robin D. G. Kelley (2013) -- Lessons from Solariss / Alberta Whittle (2023) -- The missing link / Celeste Olalquiaga (2002) -- Surface encounters / Ron Broglio (2011) -- The spill and the sea / Mel Y. Chen (2012) -- In conversation with Matthew Higgs / Brian Jungen (2004) -- The floating world of giant kelp / Melody Jue (2021).
Contents Alien seas? Alien ocean / Stefan Helmreich (2009) -- Vampyroteuthis infernalis : a treatise / Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec (1987) -- Invertebrate visions : diffractions of the brittlestar / Karen barad (2014) -- A monstrous transformation : coral in art and culture / Marion Endt-Jones (2013) -- The Blaschkas' slippery gender models / Pandora Syperek (2014) -- Genealogical mutations in the works of Wangechi Mutu / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (2020) -- The milky sea / Jules Michelet (1861) -- Fluid mechanics / Ralph Rugoff (2000) -- Sensational jellyfish / Eva Hayward (2012) -- Passionate cruces : the art of Dorothy Cross / Marina Warner (2005) -- Dolphins in space, planetary thinking / Janine Marchessault (2017) -- With octopus, 1990-2010 / Shimabuku (2021).
Contents Crossings. The Black Atlantic as a counterculture of modernity / Paul Gilroy (1993) -- Two ships/Time travel/Bodies under the sea / Ayesha Hameed (2019) -- Fantasy in the hold / Stefano Harney and Fred Moten (2013) -- One day in the life of Noah Piugattuk / Isuma (2019) -- Fish story / Allan Sekula (1995) -- Operation sunken sea / Heba Y. Amin (2018) -- Fluid encounters : Lani Maestro's A book thick of ocean / Michelle Antoinette (2014) -- Teignmouth electron / Tacita Dean (1999) -- Bas Jan Ader : in search of the miraculous / Jan Verwoert (2006) -- Seascape escape / Chris Dobrowolski (2014) -- Diving through Europe (2009-2039) : in conversation with Bergit Arends / Klara Hobza (2023) -- The sea is spread and cleaved and furied / Ahren Warner (2020).
Contents Anthropocene Oceans. In conversation with John K. grande : culture nataure catalyst / Betty Beaumont (2004) -- From the shore to the coast : curating the front line of climate change / Celina Jeffery (2020) -- A (highly) partial field guide to British canals / Heather Anne Swanson and Sonia Levy (2021) -- Pollution is colonialism / Max Liboiron (2021) -- Seabed mining in Armin Linke's 'Prospecting ocean' / Stefanie Hessler (2019) -- Pfui-pish, pshaw/Prr / Saskia Olde Wolbers (2017) -- Your shell on acid : material immersion, anthropocene dissolves / Stacy Alaimo (2016) -- Amorous anthropomorphism, marine conservation and the wonder of wildlife film in Isabella Rossellini's Green porno / Sarah Wade (2020) -- Sym-chthonic tentacular worldings : an SF story for the Crochet coral reef / Donna Haraway (2015) -- The environment, Édouard Glissant, and the poetics of solidarity / Manthia Diawara (2021) -- Feeding the ghost : John Akomfrah's Vertigo sea / T. J. Demos (2020) -- An oceanic feeling : cinema and the sea / Erika Balsom (2018).
Abstract OCEANS attends to the inextricable human and nonhuman agencies that affect and are affected by the sea and its running currents within contemporary art and visual culture. Oceans cover more than 70 percent of the Earth's surface, dividing and connecting humans, who carry saltwater in their blood, sweat and tears. They also represent a powerful nonhuman force, rising, flooding, heating and raging in unprecedented ways as the climate crisis unfolds. Artists have envisioned the sea as a sublime wilderness, home to mythical creatures and bizarre species, a source of life and death, a site of new beginnings and tragic endings, both wondrous and disastrous. From migration to melting ice caps, the sea is omnipresent in international news and politics, leaking into popular culture and proliferating in recent art and exhibitions. This anthology gathers artists and writers to address the ocean not only as a theme but as a major agent of artistic and curatorial methods.
General note"Co-published by Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press"--Title page verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-236) and index.
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