{"product_id":"ceremony-burial-of-an-undead-world","title":"Ceremony: (Burial of an Undead World)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAccording to the writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter, 'we humans cannot pre-exist our origin myths any more than a bee can pre-exist its beehive.' Drawing inspiration from her seminal essays 'The Ceremony Must Be Found' (1984) and 'The Ceremony Found' (2015), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e draws on Wynter’s thinking to suggest that 'modernity', contrary to its own self-image as rational and secular, is also determined by origin myths that emerged through the 'mutations' of Christian cosmology after the dawn of capitalism in the Middle Ages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith over twenty-five unique contributions and commentaries on Wynter’s propositions from artists and writers, this publication will constitute a critical reference point for those seeking to construct and envisage a 'counter-cosmogony' to the dispossession, slavery, and extractivism of modernity — which together endangers planetary life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnselm Franke is professor of curatorial studies at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). Elisa Giuliano is a curator, researcher, and theatre maker. Denise Ryner works as an independent curator and freelance writer in Berlin and Canada. Claire Tancons is a curator, critic, and art historian. Zairong Xiang co-curated the Guangzhou Image Triennial at the Guangdong Museum of Art in 2021.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Spector Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639799103777,"sku":"9783959056946","price":86.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9783959056946.jpg?v=1721891020","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/ceremony-burial-of-an-undead-world","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}