Animism

Beschrijving

Tent. Animism (Volume I), Antwerpen, Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), 22-01-2010, 02-05-2010 ; Anismism (Volume II), Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, 15-05-2010, 18-07-2010. - What is the role of aesthetic processes in the drawing of the boundaries between nature and culture, humans and things, the animate and inanimate? Structured around the aesthetic processes and effects of animation and mummification, Animism brings together artistic and theoretical perspectives that reflect on the boundary between subjects and objects, and the modern anxiety that accompanies the relation between 'persons' and 'things'