Theoretical and artistic reflections on the history and contemporary relevance of animism.
What is the role of aesthetic processes in the drawing of the boundaries between nature and culture, humans and things, the animate and inanimate? Structured around the aesthetic processes and effects of animation and mummification, Animism—a companion publication to the long-term exhibition of the same title, which premiered at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen in January 2010—brings together artistic and theoretical perspectives that reflect on the boundary between subjects and objects, and the modern anxiety that accompanies the relation between “persons” and “things.”
Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen, from Januray to May 2010, Kunsthalle Bern, from May to July 2010, Generali Foundation, Vienna, in 2011, and House of World Cultures, Berlin, in 2012.
Works by Agency,
Art & Language, Christian W. Braune & Otto Fischer,
Marcel Broodthaers,
Paul Chan,
Tony Conrad, Didier Demorcy, Walt Disney, Lili Dujourie,
Jimmie Durham, Eric Duvivier,
Harun Farocki,
León Ferrari, Christopher Glembotzky, Victor Grippo,
Brion Gysin, Luis Jacob, Ken Jacobs, Darius James,
Joachim Koester, Zacharias Kunuk,
Louise Lawler, Len Lye,
Étienne-Jules Marey, Daria Martin, Angela Melitopoulos & Maurizio Lazzarato, Wesley Meuris,
Henri Michaux, Santu Mofokeng, Vincent Monnikendam,
Tom Nicholson,
Otobong Nkanga,
Reto Pulfer, Félix-Louis Regnault,
Józef Robakowski,
Natascha Sadr Haghighian,
Paul Sharits, Yutaka Sone, Jan Švankmajer, David G. Tretiakoff,
Rosemarie Trockel,
Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven,
Dziga Vertov,
Klaus Weber,
Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
