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Flora Fantastic

From Orchidelirium to Ecocritical Contemporary Art
Buch | Hardcover
178 Seiten
2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-14693-5 (ISBN)
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This project delves deep into colonial botany, utilizing mediums such as historical investigation, cinema, photography, live performance, and installation art.
This book delves deep into colonial botany, utilizing mediums such as historical investigation, cinema, photography, live performance, and installation art.

Surveying perspectives from Europe, the U.S., Africa, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, it positions plants—both native and foreign—as active participants and silent observers in colonial narratives. By viewing through the prism of visual and performance art, this book touches on diverse topics like the economic value of plants, traditional and Western medicine, state‑endorsed scientific endeavors, migration patterns of flora and people, bio‑contact areas, nationalistic views, and botanical diplomacy. It offers fresh insights into colonial botany’s multifaceted history, emphasizing the intricate interplay between Eastern, Western, and Southern nations during the twentieth century and its enduring impact today.

Serving as an invaluable addition to the realms of art history, performance studies, botany, visual culture, decolonial initiatives, and environmental politics, this book arrives at a pivotal moment when its insights are most crucial.

Corina L. Apostol is an art historian, curator and writer specializing in socially engaged art and visual culture. She currently serves as assistant professor of social practice in contemporary art and culture at the University of Amsterdam. Tashima Thomas is an art historian, gastronome, curator, and cultural critic specializing in the art of the African Diaspora in the Americas. She currently serves as assistant professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University in the Meadows School of the Arts.

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Flora Fantastic. An Introduction
Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas

Part I, Colonial Legacies and Natural Intersections: Critical Perspectives on Culture, Nature, and Identity

Chapter 2. A Ripening Injury
Michael Marder

Chapter 3. Estonians, Orchids, and Exotic Others: Baltic Colonial Entanglements Revisited
Ulrike Plath

Chapter 4. Against ‘Orchidelirium’ and ‘Pornotropics’: Indonesian Artists on the Coloniality of Nature, Gender, and Race
Sadiah Boonstra

Chapter 5. Propagated in Obscurity: Bermuda Grass and Rhizomatic Queerness
C.C. McKee and Jamison Edgar

Chapter 6. Scores for the Sensitive
Dennis Dizon

Part II, Botanical Narratives: Art, Ecology, and Postcolonial Reflections

Chapter 7. Botanical Timeline
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 8. Addressing Erasures and Imagining Resistance: On Working with Colonialism and Memory, Environment and Extractivism in the Age of Crisis
Kristina Norman and Linda Kaljundi

Chapter 9. Unmasking the Palm Oil Paradox: Elia Nurvista's 'Long Hanging Fruits'
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 10. Gardening in the Beautiful ‘Wake’ of Empire in the work of Ebony G. Patterson at New York Botanical Gardens
Tashima Thomas

Chapter 11. From Soil to Subversion: The Artistic Alchemy of Nikita Kadan
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 12. Unearthing the Blind Spots of Botanical History: An Exploration of Uriel Orlow's 'Theatrum Botanicum'
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 13. Red Forests, Table Manners: Zina Saro-Wiwa's Artistic Reclamation of Ecological and Cultural Identity
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 14. Interlacing Roots and Feminine Forms: Wangechi Mutu's Ecological Reflections on Hybridity and Transformation
Corina L. Apostol

Chapter 15. Botanical Monstrosity and Kincentric Ecologies in the Work of Firelei Báez
Tashima Thomas

Glossary of Botanical Terms
Corina L. Apostol and Tashima Thomas

Index

Biographies

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo 110 Halftones, black and white; 110 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 174 x 246 mm
Gewicht 500 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Kunst / Musik / Theater Theater / Ballett
Technik Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 1-032-14693-1 / 1032146931
ISBN-13 978-1-032-14693-5 / 9781032146935
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