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Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life (Paperback)
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Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life (Paperback)
Series: Experimental Futures
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In Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life Michael M. J. Fischer
calls for a new anthropology of the arts that attends to the
materialities and technologies of the world as it exists today.
Fischer examines the work of key Southeast and East Asian artists
within the crucibles of unequal access, geopolitics, the
reverberations of past traumas, and emergent socialities. He
outlines the work of artist-theorists including Entang Wiharso,
Sally Smart, Charles Lim, Zai Kuning, and Kiran Kumar, who
speculate about the changing of the world in ways that are attuned
to cultivating, repairing, and rethinking the world in the
Anthropocene. Their artistic vocabulary not only undoes Western art
models and categories; it probes the unfolding future, addresses
past trauma, and creates contested, vibrant, and flourishing
spaces. Throughout Indonesia, Korea, Singapore, Thailand, and
Vietnam, and from Kumar's experimental dance to Kuning's rattan and
beeswax ghost ships to Lim's videography of Singapore from the sea,
Fischer argues that these artists' theoretical discourses should be
privileged over those of the curators, historians, critics, and
other gatekeepers who protect and claim art worlds for themselves.
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