Animism in Art and Performance (eBook)

Christopher Braddock is an artist, a writer, and Professor of Visual Arts at Auckland University of Technology (AUT), New Zealand. He co-leads the Ph.D. and M.Phil. programmes and the Art & Performance Research Group. He is author of Performing Contagious Bodies: Ritual Participation in Contemporary Art (Palgrave, 2013).

1.- Introduction: Animism and Animacies; Christopher Braddock.- 2. Te Tuna-Whiri: The Knot of Eels; Cassandra Barnett.- Activating Photographic Mana Rangatiratanga through Kōrero; Natalie Robertson.- 4. Dark Sun: Solar Frequencies, Solar Affects; Janine Randerson and Rachel Shearer.- 5. Language as a Life Form; Anna Gibbs.- 6. The Storm and the Still in the Art of Bridie Lunney; Simone Schmidt.- 7. Animate Atmospheres: Art at the Edge of Materiality; Edward Scheer.- 8. Intrainanimation; Rebecca Schneider.- 9. Animacies and Performativity; Amelia Jones with Chris Braddock.- 10. Animism, Animacy and Participation in the Performances of Darcell Apelu; Christopher Braddock.- 11. Exploring Posthuman Masquerade and Becoming; Martin Patrick.- 12. The Animist Readymade: Towards a Vital Materialism of Contemporary Art; Stephen Zepke.- 13. Sound Fossils and Arche-Fossils: Towards a Mineral Ontology of Contemporary Art; Amelia Barikin.