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oapen-20.500.12657-420932022-07-21T13:59:38Z The Unnaming of Aliass Bolender, Karin artistic research companion species multispecies narrative Equus asinus husbandry US South bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AG Art treatments & subjects::AGN Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc) bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AF Art forms::AFK Non-graphic art forms::AFKP Performance art The Unnaming of Aliass performs a paradoxical quest for wildly “untold” stories in the company of one special donkey companion, a femammal of the species Equus asinus and, significantly, a registered “American Spotted Ass.” Beast of burden that she is, this inscrutable companion helped carry a ridiculous load of human longings and quandaries into a maze of hot, harrowing miles, across the US South from Mississippi to Virginia, in the summer of 2002 -- all the while carrying her own onerous and unreckoned burdens and histories. Over two decades, the original journey evolved -- from the cracking-open of a quasi-Western novel-that-never-was by an implosive pun, into an ongoing philosophical and assthetic adventure: a hybrid roadside- and barnyard-based living-art practice, wherein “Aliass” un/names something much harder to grasp than the body of a lovely little ass: protagonist, setting, and traditional Western narratives turn inside-out around this “name-that-ain’t.” Through a deeply dug-in questioning of its own authorial assumptions, The Unnaming of Aliass makes space for untold autobiographies and bright dusty lacunae, tracing ineffable tales through the tangled shapes and shadows that interweave in any environment. 2020-10-01T08:37:49Z 2020-10-01T08:37:49Z 2020 book 9781953035127 9781953035134 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/42093 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International 0299.1.00.pdf punctum books Ecologies Book 10.21983/P3.0299.1.00 10.21983/P3.0299.1.00 979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13 9781953035127 9781953035134 ScholarLed Ecologies Book 354 Brooklyn, NY open access
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The Unnaming of Aliass performs a paradoxical quest for wildly “untold” stories in the company of one special donkey companion, a femammal of the species Equus asinus and, significantly, a registered “American Spotted Ass.” Beast of burden that she is, this inscrutable companion helped carry a ridiculous load of human longings and quandaries into a maze of hot, harrowing miles, across the US South from Mississippi to Virginia, in the summer of 2002 -- all the while carrying her own onerous and unreckoned burdens and histories. Over two decades, the original journey evolved -- from the cracking-open of a quasi-Western novel-that-never-was by an implosive pun, into an ongoing philosophical and assthetic adventure: a hybrid roadside- and barnyard-based living-art practice, wherein “Aliass” un/names something much harder to grasp than the body of a lovely little ass: protagonist, setting, and traditional Western narratives turn inside-out around this “name-that-ain’t.” Through a deeply dug-in questioning of its own authorial assumptions, The Unnaming of Aliass makes space for untold autobiographies and bright dusty lacunae, tracing ineffable tales through the tangled shapes and shadows that interweave in any environment.
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