Europe and the Wolf

Political Variations on a Musical Figure

Sara Nadal-Melsió

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English

Zone Books
15 April 2025

Performance art; Philosophy; Social & political philosophy

How the work of several contemporary artists illuminates and challenges the policing of European borders and identity

In this stunningly original book, Sara Nadal-Melsi explores how the work of several contemporary artists illuminates the current crisis of European universalist values amid the brutal realities of exclusion and policing of borders. The ""wolf"" is the name Baroque musicians gave to the dissonant sound produced in any attempt to temper and harmonize an instrument. Europe and the Wolf brings this musical figure to bear on contemporary aesthetic practices that respond to Europe's ongoing social and political contradictions. Throughout, Nadal-Melsi understands Europe as a conceptual problem that often relies on harmonization as an organizing category. The ""wolf"" as an emblem of disharmony, incarnated in the stranger, the immigrant, or the refugee, originates in the Latin proverb ""man is a wolf to man."" This longstanding phrase evokes the pervasive fear, and even hatred, of what is foreign, unknown, or beyond the borders of a community. The book follows the ""wolf"" in a series of relays between the musical, the visual, and the political, and through innovative readings of artworks-by, among others, Carles Santos, Pere Portabella, Allora&Calzadilla, and Anri Sala. Traversed by the musical, these artworks, as well as Nadal-Melsi's writing, present unstable symbolic and material ensembles in an array of variations of political possibilities and impossibilities that evade institutions intolerant of uncertainty and wary of diversity.

By: Sara Nadal-Melsió
Imprint: Zone Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781890951856
ISBN 10: 1890951854
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 15 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sara Nadal-Melsi is the Associate Director of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is the coauthor of Politically Red.