{"product_id":"estado-vegetal-performance-and-plantthinking-9781517913083","title":"Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eEstado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that explore the relationship between critical plant studies and performance art in the Anthropocene. The play, by Manuela Infantes, charges plants with agency and explores how they can help reconfigure human-nonhuman relations. The book includes an interview with Infante, the full playscript, and stills from the performance. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 07 November 2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: University of Minnesota Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its inaugural staging in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infantes captivating piece of experimental performance art, has expanded philosophical thinking into a fully-fledged artistic inquiry of nonanthropocentric being. Through Infantes polyvocal monologue, acted with impetus by Marcela Salinas, plants are charged with an agency capable of uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world in the face of incommensurable trauma and loss. This first book dedicated to Infantes plant-focused performance features eight essays by scholars, poets, and artists whose practices draw from research fields as disparate as new materialism, anthropogenic feminism, queer studies, and speculative realism. Including an interview with Infante, the full playscript, and stills from the performance, Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking reveals the roles that plants in art can play in productively reconfiguring human–nonhuman relations within current anthropogenic perspectives. Infantes performance is a perfect case study and reference point for anyone interested in exploring the complexities of plant-thinking through alternative and experimental avenues. Furthermore, this book is at once a critical plant studies primer and an artistic problematization of the philosophical questions that have been central to the latest multidisciplinary discussions on plant-being. Contributors: Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht U; Lucy Cotter, Portland State U; Prudence Gibson, UNSW Sydney; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country; Dawn Sanders, U of Gothenburg; Catriona Sandilands, York U; Sibila Sotomayor Van Rysseghem,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 244g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 140 x 216 x 15 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781517913083\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shulph Ink","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44964042735866,"sku":"9781517913083","price":19.62,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1704475325241_book.jpg?v=1704526318","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/estado-vegetal-performance-and-plantthinking-9781517913083","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}