ANTENNAE

THE JOURNAL OF NATURE IN VISUAL CULTURE

Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

TOM DENLINGER’S MORE-THAN-HUMAN PHOTOGRAPHY

The following conversation with photographer Tom Denlinger considers those issues that most clearly underscore the emergence in his work of a more-than-human landscape, a landscape that Tom captures as material urban nature, as powerful and agentic mesh or grid. more>>

This issue of Antennae is the second installment of 'Exposing Animals' co-curated with Matthew Brower (Assistant Professor and Director of Museum Studies at the University of Toronto), and Cecilia Novero (Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Culture at the University of Otago). The pieces gathered here map photography's ability to construct different notions of animality by questioning its idiomatic productive potentialities and limitations. More than the previous, this issue is concerned with the fluidity of digitality, the construction of human-animal metaphorical and physical dwellings, as well as the mourning of multiple, historical, and everyday animal losses.

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Tom Denlinger interviewed by Cecilia Novero

This interview focuses on Sara Angelucci’s photographic series Aviary (2013). Aviary marks the emergence of an engagement with

environmentalism and species loss in the artist's work. The interview explores the origins of the series and the links it suggests between birds and photography. Thus, the artist’s engagement with 19th Century photographic practice provides a backdrop for discussing the histories of collecting, photographic albums, spirit photography, taxidermy and the bourgeois parlour that the work touches upon. more>>

Sara Angelucci interviewed by Matthew Brower

Photographs of animals have circulated since the early history of the medium, initially focusing on those that were tame, captive, or dead. Advancements in camera and film tech- nologies enabled precise recordings of beasts in motion and, eventually, in their natural habitats. During the summer of 2015, In Focus: Animalia, a photographic exhibition curated by Arpad Kovacs, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum in LA, examined the expanding tradition of animal representation through the works of artists such as Horatio Ross, Alfred Stieglitz, William Wegman, Pieter Hugo, and Taryn Simon, among others. more >>

IN FOCUS: ANIMALIA

Arpad Kovacs interviewed by Matthew Brower

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SARA ANGELUCCI’S AVIARY

25FT

by Netta Laufer

In the photographic series, Domestic Intimacies, I explore the lived experience of cohabitating with a group of companion animals. The resulting photographs examine issues relating to domesticity, tending and care taking, the changing needs of aging pet animals, my own aging body and domestic hygiene. more>>

DOMESTIC INTIMACIES: DOCUMENTING AN INTERSPECIES COMMUNITY

by Julia Schlosser

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25FT is an installation of video and still photographs appropriated from Israeli army surveillance cameras monitoring activity along the separation wall with Palestine. The work simulates the position of the soldier controlling the camera, focusing only on animals and the landscape in the occupied West Bank. The appearance of these animals throws the border, its function, and what it stands for into question for both the soldier who survey it, and the viewer in front of the work. more>>

Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

"I am drawn to environments

that are elemental and extreme,

the ends of the earth..."

HORSES AND LENSES

by Lee Deigaard

Horses at the Museum is part of a long-term multi-media art project In Your Dreams [Horses] exploring horse personality and individuality, sensory processing and proprio-ception, concepts of invitation, initiation, and trespass, and shared thresholds of experience between horse and human. Invited by the artist to visit a "living museum”, young horses Gus and Deuce stand at the door deciding whet her to enter and explore. more>>

TO NEVER KNOW YOU: ARCHIVAL PHOTOS OF RUSSI AND FRANZ MARC

by Jean Marie Carey

This essay examines photographs of the German Expressionist artist, writer, and Tierliebhaber Franz Marc and his dog, Russi, taking the position that one of the most obvious characteristics of Marc’s life – his affectionate and respectful relationship with Russi – has been largely overlooked, though its documentation is clear. more>>

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DOUGFOG GIOVANNIALOI GRAHAMHARMAN CAROLINEPICARD

LYNNTURNER

RONBROGLIO KATHYHIGH JESSICAULLRICH

HENRIKHÅKANSSON ANDREWYANG ERWINDRIESSENS

MARIAVERSTAPPEN

KENRINALDO MUSTAFASABBAGH CECILIANOVERO DOROTHYCROSS

ANGELASINGER

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by Joshua Schuster

This essay discusses the visual history of the extinction event of the bison. Photo-graphy taken on the plains of North America in the 1880s provided the first real-time visual documentation of an extinction event as it was happening. The bison decimation can be seen today as initiating a new conception of extinction, as the end of the species was publicly debated and encouraged or discouraged as a national conversation. more>>

My work is concerned with our relation- ship with the natural world and the objects used in my photo collages are heavily symbolic of life and death. I also draw influence from Carl Gustav Jung, the renowned psychiatrist, and psychothera-pist. The motif of the Mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Hinduism and Buddhism that represents the universe. . more>>

PHOTOGRAPHING

THE LAST ANIMAL

KIT AND CADOODLE

by Fleur Alston

by Fiona Yuk-wa Law

URBAN CO-HABITATION

IN EXPOSURE

Recognizing the urban wildlife of stray animals as the invisible residents, this paper addresses the relationship between visualization of street cats and urban renewal through examining a set of photo- graphic images taken in Hong Kong by photographer Micros Yip. more>>

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Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture

Antennae is a peer-reviewed, non-funded, independent, quarterly academic journal. All rights of featured content of website and PDF publication are reserved. Editor in Chief: Giovanni Aloi. 2018

Antennae is a non-profit, advertising-free platform. As the journal grows in popularity, we are driven to produce issues that are always better than our previous. But to continue WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT.