becoming—Feral

Launching 10 November 2021

Through a collection of entries from over 80 international contributors, becoming—Feral curates a prismatic and multifaceted perspective on our understandings of other-animals and their ‘wildness’ through the re-imagined form of a bestiarum vocabulum (book of beasts). In this curated and edited collection poems, scholarly prose, musical composition, ecological research, lyric essays, performance documentation, and visual art sit alongside each other as we propose ferality in four approaches: Feral Relations, Feral Acts, Feral Collectives, and Feral Futures. 

becoming—Feral is a creative research publication which aims to investigate the complex relationships between human/other-animals and the shifting categories of wild/feral/domestic, set within landscapes constantly being altered by global transformations of climate and capitalism. We are interested in exploring reciprocal and responsive multispecies reactions to the act of becoming-Feral.

In addition to a print edition, we will be launching a digital companion collection to present multimedia contributions in the form of audio works, video art and photographic essays.

Dimensions: 210mm (w) x 148mm (h) landscape
Pages: xxiv, 231 pages
Artwork: 72 illustration/photographs, 2 figures
ISBN: 978-1-9161283-1-6
Published: 10 November 2021
Publisher: Objet-a Creative Studio
Designer: Objet-a Creative Studio
Cover Artwork: Animal Patterning Project, © Debra Swack

Editorial Team

Artistic Director

Josh Armstrong, Objet-a Creative Studio & Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, GBR

Managing Editors

Alexandra Lakind, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Chessa Adsit-Morris, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Rebekka Sæter, Independent Artist & Environmental Educator, NOR

Contributing Editors

Addie Hopes, Emery Jenson, Sabrina Manero
University of Wisconsin-Madison and affiliates at the Center for Culture, History, and Environment

Copyeditor

Gabrielle Kelenyi

Support

becoming—Feral is supported by the Center for Cultural, History and Environment (University of Wisconsin-Madison) through the CHE Research Group, Feral Worlds; and through the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s Research & Knowledge Exchange.

Support has also been given through the generosity of Paul Bassett, Ramsey Lofton, and Anonymous.

With contributions by:

Aaron A. Abeyta, Viola Arduini, Niya B, Leticia Bernaus, Helen Billinghurst, Kristen Brown, Dawnja Burris, Octavia Cade, Amalia Călinescu, bug carlson, Miranda Cichy, Kerri Keller Clement, Ashley Czajkowski, Emily Doolittle, Emili Dufour, Aaron Ellison, Bradley Fairclough, Anna Fine Foer, Amy Gaeta, Lindsay Garcia, Frankie Gerraty, Ian Gibbins, Sarah Giragosian, Lynne Goldsmith, Simon Warwick Green, brit griffin, Rosemary Hall, Gretchen Ernster Henderson, Soussi Houssine, Eileen Hutton, Hannah Imlach, Diane Jacobs, emery jenson, Kelsey Dayle John, Jill Journeaux, Michał Krawczyk, Barbara Krystal, Steinar Laumann, Margaret LeJeune, Anna Lindemann, Daniel Robles Lizano, Ramsey Lofton, Lindsay Stallones Marshall, Silke Mathe, Aodán McCardle, Michael Metivier, Clara Miller, Edmund B. Molder, Bryan H. Nichols, Darren O’Brien, Alexandra Orlova, A. Parikh, Roger Peet, Alexey Pristupa, Alicia Radage, Evelyn Ramiel, George Finlay Ramsey, Marina Rees, Jordan Reyes, Daniel Lanza Rivers, Christy Rupp, Linda Russo, Mira Sachdev, Geetanjali Sachdev, Jennifer Scappettone, Phill Smith, Sarah J. Stankey, Lorna Stevens, Debra Swack, Heather Swan, Matthew Harrison Tedford, Mariko O. Thomas, Marthe Thorshaug, Alison Trim, Stephanie Turner, Maria Tysiachniouk, Caitlin Vitale-Sullivan, Anna Vladimirova, Robert Ellis Walton, Miranda Whall, Carollyne Yardley