Taxonomy Transplanted - Softcover

Peter Nadin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1893207307 ISBN 13: 9781893207301

Publisher: Edgewise Press, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

TAXONOMY TRANSPLANTED: ART, LANGUAGE, FARMING by Peter Nadin contains an essay on the author's artistic and farming practice, as well as "Theater of Life and Death," a diary documenting three seasons on Old Field Farm. The book also features essays by Chris Murtha, Robert L. Beyfuss, Jason Farago, and Glenn O'Brien on art, botany, and taxonomy. Taxomony Transplanted is published on the occasion of Nadin's eponymous exhibition at The Horticultural Society of New York in December 2012. Since the middle of the eighteenth century plants have been classified according to a system devised by the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, who gave species Latin names based on their observable characteristics. But, Nadin asks, what actual connection does an organism have to its own name? How do names determine our perceptions of them? And what would a plant call itself, if it could? Nadin's art, and this book, examines the most fundamental questions of life and consciousness, drawing on the experiences and the materials of Old Field Farm, where the author and artist raises pigs and chickens, keeps bees, and grows vegetables and herbs. The farmer, in his conception, is another animal on the farm, and farming reveals the boundaries of perception and consciousness to which each species is subject. In his new work, Nadin explores the elusive possibility of entering into the worlds of other organisms, animals and plants alike, in order to understand the consequences of our dependence on language and perception - to see ourselves as rooted in language, as plants are rooted in soil. 13 black & white illustrations and 20 color illustrations

About this edition

• Publisher: Edgewise Press, Inc.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1893207307
• ISBN 13: 9781893207301
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• Illustrator: Peter Nadin