self/cell - Hardcover

Olivia E. Sears And Aline Mare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0975359819 ISBN 13: 9780975359815

Publisher: Spider Woman Press, 2005

Synopsis

self/cell revels in the hidden philosophical, aesthetic, and emotional space concealed in what’s traditionally marginalized as “science.” This collaboration between poet and artist explores the language of the body and the imagination beneath the glaring light of technology. Text and image work together, moving between interior dialogue and scientific discourse with a deft use of poetics. self/cell echoes Lewis Thomas’s classic collection of essays, Lives of a Cell, and calls for a new ecology in which we no longer think of selves and cells as separate and distinct. Mournful, humorous, cheeky and serious, self/cell gives us nothing less than a fresh introduction to our everyday world.

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About the Author

Olivia E. Sears has a BA in Humanities from Yale University and a PhD in Italian literature from Stanford University. A poet and translator of Italian poetry, she is also the editor and publisher of TWO LINES, a journal of international literature translated into English. Her original poetry was featured in the exhibit THEM: an Exhibition of Artists, Scientists, and Designers Concerned with the Entomological Universe (SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco). She is the founder of the Center for Art in Translation (CAT), a non-profit organization committed to international literature in translation and cross-cultural exchange in the arts, including school programs devoted to bilingual expression. Aline Mare began her career as an artist in the early 1980s on the Lower East Side of Manhattan working in theater, performance, and installation art. She has performed with such luminaries as Richard Foreman, Meredith Monk, Robert Frank, and Robert Wilson. As a member of the collaborative performance group Erotic Psyche, she performed throughout Manhattan at venues including the Kitchen and Franklin Furnace, and on tour in Europe with a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Following the disbanding of Erotic Psyche, Ms. Mare moved to San Francisco to complete her MFA at the San Francisco Art Institute where she produced the film S’aline’s Solution, garnering international awards. Her body of video work has been exhibited at the Cinematheque in San Francisco, the Whitney Museum, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Spider Woman Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0975359819
• ISBN 13: 9780975359815
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 41