02734oam 22005174a 450 991041828900332120230627195111.0(CKB)5310000000016901(OCoLC)1227264769(MdBmJHUP)muse95255(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35935(oapen)doab35935(EXLCZ)99531000000001690120201016d2020 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Unnaming of Aliass /Karin BolenderBrooklyn, NYpunctum books2020[Earth, Milky Way]3Ecologies Books/Immediations, an imprint of punctum books2020.©20201 online resource1-953035-13-2 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.EselgndReisegndDarstellende KunstgndUSASüdoststaatengndartistic researchcompanion speciesmultispecies narrativeEquus asinushusbandryUS SouthEsel.Reise.Darstellende Kunst.Bolender Karin1974-aut1367302MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910418289003321The Unnaming of Aliass3390184UNINA