About the Book
On the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
On the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism.
This is the fifth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts and Sternberg Press. Each book includes newly commissioned writing as well a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the Wattis's year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. This volume is informed by themes found in the work of Anicka Yi, such as AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, feminism, and Asian American experiences. Contributions include a cocktail recipe by Pierre Huyghe, an academic essay on psychedelic mushrooms in Native American culture, and a short story by Argentinian author Julio Cortazar, along with photographs and drawings relating to the themes. Through an eclectic range of international voices, the book encompasses many mediums in an attempt to address some of the most pressing issues of our time.
Includes a fold out insert with drawings by Anicka Yi.
Contributors
Giorgio Agamben, John Berger, Nina Canell & Robin Watkins, Mel Chen, Julio Cortazar, Stephanie Dinkins, Dave Elfving, Ayesha Hameed, Taro Hattori, Cathy Park Hong, Tishan Hsu, Pierre Huyghe, Caroline A. Jones, Brian Karl, Heesoo Kwon & Karen Cheung, Jen Liu, Jochen Lempert, Yutaka Matsuzawa, Aspen Mays, K. Allado McDowell, Naomi Mitchison, Ho Tzu Nyen, Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodriguez, Adrian Villar Rojas, Jackie Wang, Keith Williams, Anicka Yi.
Table of Contents:
- Nina Canell and Robin Watkins, Mid Sentence
- Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez, from Let’s Become Fungal!
- Cathy Park Hong, from Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
- K Allado-McDowell, from Air Age Blueprint
- Keith Williams, from Indigenous Philosophies and Psychedelics
- Caroline A. Jones, Symbiontics: a view of present conditions from a place of entanglement
- Pierre Huyghe, from Ryan Gander’s ARTISTS’ COCKTAILS
- Julio Cortázar, from End of the Game and Other Stories
- Giorgio Agamben, from The Open: Man and Animal
- Naomi Mitchison, from Memoirs of a Spacewoman
- Taro Hattori, 23 lines after Anicka Yi’s work
- Dave Elfving, A Bacterial Simulation for Anicka Yi
- Aspen Mays, Earth Flag
- Brian Karl, A History of Cattle: A Co-Species Compendium
- Mel Chen, from Animacies
- Heesoo Kwon and Karen Cheung, Before It Fades
- Tishan Hsu, Selected Drawings
- Jen Liu, INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING OOOO (IPOOOO)
- Jochen Lempert, Untitled
- John Berger, from About Looking
- Adrian Villar Rojas, Untitled (Set of Six Drawings)
- Jackie Wang, The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void
- Ho Tzu Nyen, L is for Lai Teck
- Anicka Yi, Preparatory sketch 1 of X for a new Radiolaria sculpture
- Yutaka Matsuzawa, from Quantum Art Manifesto
- Stephanie Dinkins, Afro-now-ism
- Ayesha Hameed, from Visual Cultures as Time Travel
About the Author :
Jeanne Gerrity is the Deputy Director and Director of Programs at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts (USA) and has written for such publications as Artforum, Art Agenda, and Frieze.
Diego Villalobos is a curator from Cuernavaca, Mexico, currently based in San Francisco. He works as the Assistant Curator at the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, where he recently presented Rodrigo Hernandez- with what eyes? (2023-24), Drum Listens to Heart- Live Performances (2022-23), and Mirra Helen- Leaves 1992-2022 (2022). From 2016 to 2019, Villalobos served as a curator at The 500 Capp Street Foundation in San Francisco.
