Supernature

Edited by Celina Jeffery

Supernature is more than nature as science, or nature as art – it exceeds the boundaries of these classificatory systems and opens up a space where the species of things conjure wonder and curiosity, as well as fear and repugnance.

This issue of Drain explores the limits of ‘nature’: its extremeties, its uselessness, its non-existence. Neither transcendent nor reified, ‘supernature’ is heterogenous and interdependent: it mimics, inverts, entombs and subverts the natural. Here, the classifications and hence, boundaries between art and nature are eliminated, and the unstable category of the speculative ensues.

2012