Estado Vegetal
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Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene 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 of nonanthropocentric being. Through Infante’s polyvocal monologue, acted with impetus by Marcela Salinas, plants are charged with an agency capable of uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world in the face of incommensurable trauma and loss. This first book dedicated to Infante’s plant-focused performance features eight essays by scholars, poets, and artists whose practices draw from research fields as disparate as new materialism, anthropogenic feminism, queer studies, and speculative realism. Including an interview with Infante, the full playscript, and stills from the performance, Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking reveals the roles that plants in art can play in productively reconfiguring human–nonhuman relations within current anthropogenic perspectives. Infante’s performance is a perfect case study and reference point for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of plant-thinking through alternative and experimental avenues. Furthermore, this book is at once a critical plant studies primer and an artistic problematization of the philosophical questions that have been central to the latest multidisciplinary discussions on plant-being. Contributors: Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht U; Lucy Cotter, Portland State U; Prudence Gibson, UNSW Sydney; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country; Dawn Sanders, U of Gothenburg; Catriona Sandilands, York U; Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem, colectivo LASTESIS; Mandy-Suzanne Wong.
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.
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
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| Weight | 1 oz |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 6 × 9 in |
