Aki Inomata - Significant Otherness
Aki Inomata - Significant Otherness
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| Publisher | Bss Bijutsu |
| ISBN | 9784568105292 |
| Idea Code | 21424 |
Focusing on how the act of “making” is not exclusive to mankind, Aki Inomata develops the process of collaboration with living creatures into full-blown artworks. While the study and application of the norms and forms of nature has been traditionally labelled “organic design” in Western culture, Inomata takes the traditionally Eastern stance that humans are part of nature. Leaving behind “human-centred design”, she embraces an interspecies approach and closely observes the behaviour, expressions, and traces of activity of various animals – hermit crabs, molluscs, beavers – appropriating them as actors in her fascinating creations. A safeguard against our own self-destructiveness.
| 176 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English |
Bss Bijutsu
