ContentsAcknowledgmentsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsAbout This Book Introduction: Why Look at Plants? Giovanni Aloi Part 1: Forest 1 Lost in the Post-Sublime Forest Giovanni Aloi 2 The Humblest Props Now Play a Role Caroline Picard 3 Ungrid-able Ecologies: Becoming Sensor in a Black Oak Savannah Natasha Myers 4 An Open Book of Grass Jenny Kendler Part 2: Trees 5 Trees: Upside-Down, Inside-Out, and Moving Giovanni Aloi 6 Animation, Animism . Dukun Dukun & DNA Lucy Davis 7 Tree Wound Portraits Shannon Lee Castleman 8 Contested Sites: Forest as Uncommon Ground Greg Lee Ruffing 9 Quercus velutina , Art of Fiction, No. 11111011 Lindsey French Part 3: Garden 10 Falling from Grace Giovanni Aloi 11 Hortus Conclusus : The Garden of Earthly Mind Wendy Wheeler 12 Eden's Heirs: Biopolitics and Vegetal Affinities in the Gardens of Literature Joela Jacobs 13 Thoreau's Beans Michael Marder Part 4: Greenhouse 14 The Greenhouse Effects Giovanni Aloi 15 Solarise Luftwerk 16 The Glass Shields the Eyes of the Plant: Darwin's Glasshouse Study Heidi Norton 17 The Lichen Museum Laurie Palmer Part 5: Store 18 Hyperplant Shelf-Life Giovanni Aloi 19 Life in the Aisles Linda Tegg 20 Roomba Rumba: Interview with Katherine Behar Fatma Çolakogluand Ulya Soley 21 Home Depot Throwing Out Plants Various Contributors Part 6: House 22 Presence, Bareness, and Being-With Giovanni Aloi 23 Houseplants as Fictional Subjects Susan McHugh 24 Seeing Green: The Climbing Other Dawn Sanders 25 Plant Radio Amanda White Part 7: Laboratory 26 Psychoactives and Biogenetics Giovanni Aloi 27 Of Plants and Robots: Art, Architecture and Technoscience for Mixed Societies Monika Bakke 28 Boundary Plants Sara Black 29 The Illustrated Herbal Tova Flores Index Part 8: Of Other Spaces 30 (Brief) Encounters Giovanni Aloi 31 Places of Maybe: Plants "Making Do" Without the Belly of the Beast Andrew Yang 32 The Neophyte Lois Weinberger 33 Herbarium Perrine : Interview with Mark Dion Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi 34 Burning Flowers: Interview with Mat Collishaw Interviewer: Giovanni Aloi 35 A Program for Plants: In Conversation, Coda Giovanni Aloi, Brian M. John, Linda Tegg and Joshi Radin BibliographyIndex.
Why Look at Plants? : The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art