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Reading by Osmosis. Nature Interprets Man' shows works of art that are not made by human hands: an overgrown fence, an underwater video and a battered disco ball. The makers? Ivy, an octopus and time. If we acknowledge that animals and plants, too, can 'read' the world and interpret and 'artistically' transform it, is the traditional opposition between culture and nature still tenable? Sema Bekirovic does not identify with the image of artists as lonely geniuses. Rather, she places little value on her own contribution to her work and shares her authorship with coots, warmth or light. Reading by Osmosis is the provisional high point of this process. As a rule, the intention and the autonomy of a maker are inextricably linked to their artistry. Reading by Osmosis raises the question of whether making art is a process as unintentional and plantlife-like as, for example, osmosis. The book includes the essay 'On Art as Planetary Metabolism', in which philosopher Michael Marder expounds his theory about the artist as a plant (and vice versa) in a surprising way.

Nature (Aesthetics) --- Weathering --- 7.07 --- Kunst en natuur --- Bekirović, Semâ °1977 (°Amsterdam, Nederland) --- kunst --- 7.071 BEKIROVIC --- 7.071 AAAA --- Nederland --- kunst en ecologie --- kunst en natuur --- found objects --- readymades --- objets trouvés --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- Bekirović, Semâ --- Erosion --- Art and nature --- Nature and art --- Aesthetics --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Art --- art [fine art] --- Plantae [kingdom] --- time --- Nature --- decomposition --- moss [plant] --- animals by sex or age --- philosophy of art --- nests [animal architecture] --- Bekirovic, Semâ --- art [discipline]