Imaginable Worlds: Art, Crisis, and Global Futures
A collection of essays offering a creative look at crises past, present, future, and speculative.
Edited by Orianna Cacchione, Nandita Jaishankar, and Arushi Vats
Contributions by Trina Nileena Banerjee, Leticia Bernaus, Ho Tzu Nyen, Uzodinma Iweala, Patrick Jagoda, Meena Kandasamy, Mohutsiwa Siyanda, Ashlyn Sparrow, Jeet Thayil, and Suraj Yengde
Published by Smart Museum of Art, The University of Chicago + Serendipity Arts Foundation, New Delhi
210 pages | 30 color plates | 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 | © 2022
Starting with the shared experience of crisis brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and a planet sieged by disaster, Imaginable Worlds transforms tragedy into a framework for research and art, imagining a shared world beyond a global experience of emergency. Produced by the Smart Museum of Art and the Projects/Processes essay collection series, an initiative launched by the Serendipity Arts Foundation in New Delhi, this volume brings together the voices of artists, authors, and public intellectuals from a range of fields and locations.
Suraj Yengde, named one of the "25 Most Influential Young Indians" by GQ Magazine; Siyanda Mohutsiwa, the brain behind the viral hashtag #IfAfricaWasABar; and Ho Tzu Nyen, the acclaimed artist behind the ongoing Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia project, are among the diverse contributors who have come together to critically engage with ideas and practices that engage with a partially known or unknown world.
Inviting fresh creative looks at crises past, imminent, immediate, and speculative, Imaginable Worlds considers questions of survival and invites us to imagine new modes of sensing, knowing, and dwelling.
we are safe here
Handmade hardcover book, full color photos, limited edition 15x21cm / 6 x 8.25”, 64 pages
This publication gives physical form to a process of self-examination and material research that strives to embody the physical and spiritual aspects of our existence. A fragmented bilingual poem combined with appropriated words from Lucretius, Rosi Braidotti, Marcel Proust, Ali Smith, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, and Clarice Lispector; photographs capturing traces of a 16 mm and video installation; performing hands as a symbol of the self, of the need to inhabit our own skin, to recognise each one of us are body and spirit, language and memory, matter surrounded by matter, an archive of transformations and relations.
becoming - Feral
A curated collection of a variety of art manifestations investigating the relationships between human/other animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic.
Dimensions: 210mm (w) x 148mm (h) landscape / Pages: xxiv, 231 pages /Artwork: 72 illustration/photographs, 2 figures / ISBN: 978-1-9161283-1-6 / Published: 10 November 2021 / Publisher: Objet-a Creative Studio /Designer: Objet-a Creative Studio
becoming—Feral curates a prismatic and multifaceted perspective on our understandings of other-animals and their ‘wildness’ through the re-imagined form of a bestiarum vocabulum (book of beasts). In this curated and edited collection poems, scholarly prose, musical composition, ecological research, lyric essays, performance documentation, and visual art sit alongside each other as we propose ferality in four approaches: Feral Relations, Feral Acts, Feral Collectives, and Feral Futures.
becoming—Feral is a creative research publication which aims to investigate the complex relationships between human/other-animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic, set within landscapes constantly being altered by global transformations of climate and capitalism. We are interested in exploring reciprocal and responsive multispecies reactions to the act of becoming-Feral.