Liang Shaoji's Silkworm Art
This book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daoism-inspired ecological motif of ‘ziran’. Are silkworms co-authors or alienated fabricators in such creative practice? Based on a multi-sited ethnographi...
This book focuses on the work of Chinese contemporary artist Liang Shaoji and emphasises the contribution of multispecies ethnography to art criticism. Over three decades, Liang has worked with domestic silkworms to craft art that embodies the Daoism-inspired ecological motif of ‘ziran’. Are silkworms co-authors or alienated fabricators in such creative practice? Based on a multi-sited ethnographi...
