Kassandra Nakas received a PhD in art history from the Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she is also teaching. Previously, she was a visiting professor at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich.Jessica Ullrich is visiting professor for aesthetics and art history at the University of Fine Arts Münster. Before that she has taught art history at universities in Berlin, Frankfurt, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Münster, Flensburg, Graz and São Paulo. She publishes widely on human-animal relations in contemporary art and curated art exhibitions and video screenings on the same topic in Berlin, Utrecht, and São Paulo.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Into the Soil.- Chapter 2. Assembling, Metabolizing, Surfacing: Aesthetic Strategies for Knowledge Co-Creation in Contemporary Soil Art.- Chapter 3. Soil and Sound. Subterranean Soundscapes and Animal Sound Communication.- Part II: The Politics of Soil: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives.- Chapter 4. The Falling Sky: Shamanic Alternatives for a Wild Art History.- Chapter 5. “The Unceasing Chanting of Land”: Abigail Romanchak Recontextualises Seismographic Readings of Kīlauea.- Part III: Agropolitics and Remediaton.- Chapter 6. The Chemical Landscapes of South Tirolean Agricultural Soils: Katrin Hornek’s Plant Plant and Elena Mazzi’s Copperialities.- Chapter 7. Urban Landscape and The Hidden Architecture of Brownfields (On Soil Remediation, Plants, and The Art of SLOW Clean-up).- Part IV: Bodies and Soils.- Chapter 8. Feminist Aesthetics of Body-Territory in Chilean Visual Art.- Chapter 9. Matters of Becoming. Soils and Bodies in Contemporary Art.- Chapter 10. Becoming Soil. Queer Compos(t)ing for Earthly Survival.- Part V: Soil Imaginaries.- Chapter 11. Melting, Pouring, Unearthing. Earth in the Material Aesthetics of Gaston Bachelard.- Chapter 12. The Earth in Art: Māori and New Materialist Perspectives.

Kassandra Nakas received a PhD in art history from the Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she is also teaching. Previously, she was a visiting professor at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich.Jessica Ullrich is visiting professor for aesthetics and art history at the University of Fine Arts Münster. Before that she has taught art history at universities in Berlin, Frankfurt, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Münster, Flensburg, Graz and São Paulo. She publishes widely on human-animal relations in contemporary art and curated art exhibitions and video screenings on the same topic in Berlin, Utrecht, and São Paulo.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Into the Soil.- Chapter 2. Assembling, Metabolizing, Surfacing: Aesthetic Strategies for Knowledge Co-Creation in Contemporary Soil Art.- Chapter 3. Soil and Sound. Subterranean Soundscapes and Animal Sound Communication.- Part II: The Politics of Soil: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives.- Chapter 4. The Falling Sky: Shamanic Alternatives for a Wild Art History.- Chapter 5. “The Unceasing Chanting of Land”: Abigail Romanchak Recontextualises Seismographic Readings of Kīlauea.- Part III: Agropolitics and Remediaton.- Chapter 6. The Chemical Landscapes of South Tirolean Agricultural Soils: Katrin Hornek’s Plant Plant and Elena Mazzi’s Copperialities.- Chapter 7. Urban Landscape and The Hidden Architecture of Brownfields (On Soil Remediation, Plants, and The Art of SLOW Clean-up).- Part IV: Bodies and Soils.- Chapter 8. Feminist Aesthetics of Body-Territory in Chilean Visual Art.- Chapter 9. Matters of Becoming. Soils and Bodies in Contemporary Art.- Chapter 10. Becoming Soil. Queer Compos(t)ing for Earthly Survival.- Part V: Soil Imaginaries.- Chapter 11. Melting, Pouring, Unearthing. Earth in the Material Aesthetics of Gaston Bachelard.- Chapter 12. The Earth in Art: Māori and New Materialist Perspectives.

Kassandra Nakas received a PhD in art history from the Freie Universität Berlin and a postdoctoral qualification (Habilitation) from Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, where she is also teaching. Previously, she was a visiting professor at the University of Arts (UdK) Berlin, the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe, and the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich.Jessica Ullrich is visiting professor for aesthetics and art history at the University of Fine Arts Münster. Before that she has taught art history at universities in Berlin, Frankfurt, Erlangen, Nürnberg, Münster, Flensburg, Graz and São Paulo. She publishes widely on human-animal relations in contemporary art and curated art exhibitions and video screenings on the same topic in Berlin, Utrecht, and São Paulo.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I: Into the Soil.- Chapter 2. Assembling, Metabolizing, Surfacing: Aesthetic Strategies for Knowledge Co-Creation in Contemporary Soil Art.- Chapter 3. Soil and Sound. Subterranean Soundscapes and Animal Sound Communication.- Part II: The Politics of Soil: Decolonial and Indigenous Perspectives.- Chapter 4. The Falling Sky: Shamanic Alternatives for a Wild Art History.- Chapter 5. “The Unceasing Chanting of Land”: Abigail Romanchak Recontextualises Seismographic Readings of Kīlauea.- Part III: Agropolitics and Remediaton.- Chapter 6. The Chemical Landscapes of South Tirolean Agricultural Soils: Katrin Hornek’s Plant Plant and Elena Mazzi’s Copperialities.- Chapter 7. Urban Landscape and The Hidden Architecture of Brownfields (On Soil Remediation, Plants, and The Art of SLOW Clean-up).- Part IV: Bodies and Soils.- Chapter 8. Feminist Aesthetics of Body-Territory in Chilean Visual Art.- Chapter 9. Matters of Becoming. Soils and Bodies in Contemporary Art.- Chapter 10. Becoming Soil. Queer Compos(t)ing for Earthly Survival.- Part V: Soil Imaginaries.- Chapter 11. Melting, Pouring, Unearthing. Earth in the Material Aesthetics of Gaston Bachelard.- Chapter 12. The Earth in Art: Māori and New Materialist Perspectives.