Antennae: The Politics of Meat
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numer 14 - jesień 2010 - "The Politics of Meat", do ściągnięcia w PDF
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5 The War on Compassion
In our lifetime, what was not supposed to happen “ever again” -- genocide -- has instead happened again and again. As Samantha Power shows in A Problem from Hell,
the perception of genocide is all in the framing. Governments acting against a minority want the violence to be perceived as civil war, tribal strife, as quelling unrest, restoring order, as a private matter, a concern that does not spill over into the international community. Other governments weigh their own national interests against the needs of those being killed.
Text by Carol J. Adams
10 The Politics of Carol J. Adams
Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University interviewed Carol J. Adams exclusively for Antennae
Interview questions by Annie Potts
25 Heartburn: Indigestion, Contention and Animals in Contemporary Art
One of the questions on the global table is whether animals should be used as human food. This essay seeks to locate that question and related ones in several recent
contemporary artworks spawning a great deal of global media attention, as well as community controversy. Three artists, their works and surrounding media disputes will serve as moments of investigation: the viral and internationally web based denouncements of Guillermo Vargas Jiménez, also known as Habacuc, and his piece Eres Lo Que Lees (You Are What You Read), which included an emaciated dog tied to a wall by a length of rope; the closing of the entire Adel Abdessemed Don't Trust Me exhibit at the San Francisco Art Institute Gallery in 2008; and the closing of Huang Yong Ping’s exhibit Theatre of the World at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada in 2007.
Text by Carol Gigliotti
34 Terror From the Stare: Visual Landscape of Meat Production
In his latest book, Terror From the Air, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk investigates how air, as a fundamental life-sustaining element, has been given a pivotal role in postwar forms of terrorism, genocide, and chemical warfare. Here, I re-phrase Sloterdijk’s book title to address not acts of breathing, but acts of viewing. My purpose is to discuss how different modalities and manipulations of visual perception (both human and animal) are implicated in routines of physical violence toward animals — more specifically, in the process of their becoming-meat.
Text by Helena Peder sen
39 Steve Baker – Nortfolk Roadkill, Mainly
A Portfolio.
Images by Steve Baker
55 Heide Hatry on Skin and Meat
Heide Hatry’s art looks at meat and skin as media and challenges the signifiying potentials of such media through uncanny sculptural and installation work. Here, Ron Broglio interviews the artist for Antennae.
Interview questions by Ron Broglio
65 The ‘Ethics’ of Consensual Cannibalism: Deconstructing the Human-Animal Dichotomy
How can anyone consent to being eaten? This was, and still is, a common question and response to the cannibalism case that took place in Germany in 2001. It was a case that took 6 years to resolve because the notion of ‘consent’ entailed, at the time, legal and moral complications.
Text by Nicole Ander son
Presentation:
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, was founded in September 2006 by Giovanni Aloi, a London-based lecturer in history of art and media studies. The Journal combines a heightened level of academic scrutiny of animals in visual culture, with a less formal and more experimental format designed to cross the boundaries of academic knowledge, in order to appeal to diverse audiences including artists and the general public alike.
Ultimately, the Journal provides a platform and encourages the overlap of the professional spheres of artists, scientists, environmental activists, curators, academics, and general readers. It does so through an editorial mix that combines academic writing, interviews, informative articles, and discussions with an illustrated format, in order to grant accessibility to a wider readership.
Main Aims and Objectives:
Over its first two years of activity, Antennae has become an influential resource of academic relevance within the fast growing field of animal and environmental studies, acting as receiver and amplifier of relevant topics, as expressed by the connections between the subject of nature and the multidisciplinary field of visual culture. It grants wide accessibility to innovative and original academic material, providing a platform for an inclusive dialogue between a range of theorists, practitioners, and international audiences. It provides international exposure to contributors and artists in order to open the dialogue to a broader range of audience, and effectively supports the development of animal and environmental studies networks around the world by capitalising on a vast network of Global Contributors reporting from countries currently underrepresented in the animal and environmental studies debate.
The Journal contributes to raising awareness of the issues involved in the representation of the natural world in visual culture in order to open to reconsideration past and current approaches and methodologies, whilst informing artists’ work and establishing a dialogue between theoretical and practical spheres.
numer 14 - jesień 2010 - "The Politics of Meat", do ściągnięcia w PDF
Spis treści:
5 The War on Compassion
In our lifetime, what was not supposed to happen “ever again” -- genocide -- has instead happened again and again. As Samantha Power shows in A Problem from Hell,
the perception of genocide is all in the framing. Governments acting against a minority want the violence to be perceived as civil war, tribal strife, as quelling unrest, restoring order, as a private matter, a concern that does not spill over into the international community. Other governments weigh their own national interests against the needs of those being killed.
Text by Carol J. Adams
10 The Politics of Carol J. Adams
Annie Potts, co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Human and Animal Studies at Canterbury University interviewed Carol J. Adams exclusively for Antennae
Interview questions by Annie Potts
25 Heartburn: Indigestion, Contention and Animals in Contemporary Art
One of the questions on the global table is whether animals should be used as human food. This essay seeks to locate that question and related ones in several recent
contemporary artworks spawning a great deal of global media attention, as well as community controversy. Three artists, their works and surrounding media disputes will serve as moments of investigation: the viral and internationally web based denouncements of Guillermo Vargas Jiménez, also known as Habacuc, and his piece Eres Lo Que Lees (You Are What You Read), which included an emaciated dog tied to a wall by a length of rope; the closing of the entire Adel Abdessemed Don't Trust Me exhibit at the San Francisco Art Institute Gallery in 2008; and the closing of Huang Yong Ping’s exhibit Theatre of the World at the Vancouver Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada in 2007.
Text by Carol Gigliotti
34 Terror From the Stare: Visual Landscape of Meat Production
In his latest book, Terror From the Air, the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk investigates how air, as a fundamental life-sustaining element, has been given a pivotal role in postwar forms of terrorism, genocide, and chemical warfare. Here, I re-phrase Sloterdijk’s book title to address not acts of breathing, but acts of viewing. My purpose is to discuss how different modalities and manipulations of visual perception (both human and animal) are implicated in routines of physical violence toward animals — more specifically, in the process of their becoming-meat.
Text by Helena Peder sen
39 Steve Baker – Nortfolk Roadkill, Mainly
A Portfolio.
Images by Steve Baker
55 Heide Hatry on Skin and Meat
Heide Hatry’s art looks at meat and skin as media and challenges the signifiying potentials of such media through uncanny sculptural and installation work. Here, Ron Broglio interviews the artist for Antennae.
Interview questions by Ron Broglio
65 The ‘Ethics’ of Consensual Cannibalism: Deconstructing the Human-Animal Dichotomy
How can anyone consent to being eaten? This was, and still is, a common question and response to the cannibalism case that took place in Germany in 2001. It was a case that took 6 years to resolve because the notion of ‘consent’ entailed, at the time, legal and moral complications.
Text by Nicole Ander son
