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. Â 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. Â 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.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
Art After Nature |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| First published: |
2023 |
| Editors: |
Giovanni Aloi
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-5179-1308-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-5179-1308-X |
| Barcode: |
9781517913083 |
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