LEADER 02734oam 22005174a 450 001 9910418289003321 005 20230627195111.0 035 $a(CKB)5310000000016901 035 $a(OCoLC)1227264769 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse95255 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35935 035 $a(oapen)doab35935 035 $a(EXLCZ)995310000000016901 100 $a20201016d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Unnaming of Aliass /$fKarin Bolender 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2020 210 1$a[Earth, Milky Way]$c3Ecologies Books/Immediations, an imprint of punctum books$d2020. 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource 311 08$a1-953035-13-2 330 $aThe 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. 606 $aEsel$2gnd 606 $aReise$2gnd 606 $aDarstellende Kunst$2gnd 607 $aUSA$xSüdoststaaten$2gnd 610 $aartistic research 610 $acompanion species 610 $amultispecies narrative 610 $aEquus asinus 610 $ahusbandry 610 $aUS South 615 7$aEsel. 615 7$aReise. 615 7$aDarstellende Kunst. 700 $aBolender$b Karin$f1974-$4aut$01367302 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910418289003321 996 $aThe Unnaming of Aliass$93390184 997 $aUNINA