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100 1 _aBolender, Karin
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245 1 0 _aThe Unnaming of Aliass
260 _aBrooklyn, NY
_bpunctum books
_c2020
300 _a1 electronic resource (354 p.)
506 0 _aOpen Access
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520 _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.
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650 7 _aAnimals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
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650 7 _aPerformance art
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653 _aartistic research
653 _acompanion species
653 _amultispecies narrative
653 _aEquus asinus
653 _ahusbandry
653 _aUS South
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