136 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
136 Pages
32 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daoism-inspired ecological motif of ‘ziran’. Are silkworms co-authors or alienated fabricators in such creative practice? Based on a multi-sited... Read more
1. Journey into Silkworm Artistry 2. The Cultivator and Maker 3. In the Web of Flat Cocoons 4. Agency in Silkworm Rituals 5. Anthropomorphic Kinship in Practice 6. Epilogue: Working Towards ‘Ziran’. Index
Biography
Feixuan Xu is an anthropologist specialising in the anthropology of art and multispecies ethnography. She obtained a PhD in Creative Media from City University of Hong Kong and was Asymmetry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art, UK.
