{"product_id":"probing-arts-and-emergent-forms-of-life-9781478017059","title":"Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eProbing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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, reverberating 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 changing the world in ways that are attuned to its cultivation, repair, and rethinking 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 Sing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] dynamic ethnography of prominent works by contemporary artists in Asia ... \u003ci\u003eProbing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life \u003c\/i\u003egoes far beyond introducing innovative artists and describing their artworks. It situates contemporary Asian art within ethnographic and geo-political contexts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Robin Visser * Journal of Contemporary Asia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Challenging Art as Cultural Systems  12\u003cbr\u003e 2. Synthetic Realism: Postcinema in the Anthropocene  31\u003cbr\u003e 3. Feminage, \u003ci\u003eWarang\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Nervous System (Hauntology and Curation)  71\u003cbr\u003e 4. Nomadic Video in Turbulent Sea States: How Art Becomes Critique  100\u003cbr\u003e 5. Water Notes on Rattan Strings  132\u003cbr\u003e 6. Raw Moves and Layered Communication across the Archipelago Seas  165\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Probing Art and Emerging Forms of Life  197\u003cbr\u003e Appendix. The Year 2020 and the \u003ci\u003eCamouflage Painting Series\u003c\/i\u003e: Conversations with Entang Wiharso  215\u003cbr\u003e Notes  221\u003cbr\u003e References  253\u003cbr\u003e Index  281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040537674071,"sku":"9781478017059","price":73.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478017059.jpg?v=1750947050","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/probing-arts-and-emergent-forms-of-life-9781478017059","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}