Surrounding the Living
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The Living
Summer Spring 2016
Due to art historians’ recent interest in the field of animal studies, as well as Esse’s desire to contribute to awareness and transformation of humans’ relationship of domination with nature and the realm of the living, we were nevertheless encouraged to take a closer look at this phenomenon. We decided to address the subject through a non-anthropocentric perspective.
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Beyond Zoocentricism : An Interview with Giovanni Aloi
Engaging with Vegetable Others
From Critical Art to an Art of Reconciliation: Cohabitation with Non-Human Animals
Toward an Anti-Speciesist Aesthetic?
Fukushima’s Animal
Cultivating Connections: Michel Blazy’s Ecosystems in Motion
Humans on Display: A Subject Almost Like the Others
I am in animal
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Immersion
Winter 2026
This issue is interested in all forms of immersion in contemporary art. How are artists critically engaging with immersive technologies? Conversely, what kinds of practices are challenging technology in their pursuit of immersion? How are these experiences breaking down the boundaries between spectator, body, and art? We put forward proposals that rely on listening and sustained attention rather than on amplification and sensory overload – works using devices that are sometimes relatively simple and non-invasive, sometimes a little more elaborate, but in which participation is, with a few nuances, neither passive nor devoid of critical thinking.
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Photo: Cléo Sjölander, courtesy of the artists