The Song of the Bestiary Artist's Book by Corinne Teed
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. Multiple copies are available and can be shipped before the end of the exhibition.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The Song of the Bestiary honors the exuberance of more-than-human animals. Centered on each page are species who have been documented engaging in a form of group sex, reveling in collective pleasure. It is a queer codeswitch that riffs on the 1935 limited edition book, The Song of Songs Which is Solomons, illustrated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. The book begins with a passage from the Song of Songs that describes a multispecies erotic scene expressed through fecund flora and playful fauna. The passage becomes a gateway to hedonistic erotics within contemporary biomes. The central images of animals are surrounded by dense illustrations of ecosystems, woven through with evidence of extractive economies. At the center of the book, a poem by Donika Kelly offers a further queering of interspecies relationships as the narrator’s body transforms into a menagerie of creatures. The publication offers a celebration of the queer and promiscuous fauna by whom we are surrounded and shaped.” -Corinne Teed
6.25” x 6.25” x 0.25”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. Multiple copies are available and can be shipped before the end of the exhibition.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The Song of the Bestiary honors the exuberance of more-than-human animals. Centered on each page are species who have been documented engaging in a form of group sex, reveling in collective pleasure. It is a queer codeswitch that riffs on the 1935 limited edition book, The Song of Songs Which is Solomons, illustrated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. The book begins with a passage from the Song of Songs that describes a multispecies erotic scene expressed through fecund flora and playful fauna. The passage becomes a gateway to hedonistic erotics within contemporary biomes. The central images of animals are surrounded by dense illustrations of ecosystems, woven through with evidence of extractive economies. At the center of the book, a poem by Donika Kelly offers a further queering of interspecies relationships as the narrator’s body transforms into a menagerie of creatures. The publication offers a celebration of the queer and promiscuous fauna by whom we are surrounded and shaped.” -Corinne Teed
6.25” x 6.25” x 0.25”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
This artist’s book is featured in the 2022 & 2023 McKnight Fellowship Exhibition, on display in MCBA’s Main Gallery from January 21st, 2025 to March 30th, 2025. Multiple copies are available and can be shipped before the end of the exhibition.
This piece is featured in the February 2025 issue of The Fore Edge, a quarterly newsletter from MCBA that highlights new artist’s books and zines for collections, universities, and libraries. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, there is a sign up available here. Past featured pieces can be viewed here.
“The Song of the Bestiary honors the exuberance of more-than-human animals. Centered on each page are species who have been documented engaging in a form of group sex, reveling in collective pleasure. It is a queer codeswitch that riffs on the 1935 limited edition book, The Song of Songs Which is Solomons, illustrated and hand-illuminated by Valenti Angelo. The book begins with a passage from the Song of Songs that describes a multispecies erotic scene expressed through fecund flora and playful fauna. The passage becomes a gateway to hedonistic erotics within contemporary biomes. The central images of animals are surrounded by dense illustrations of ecosystems, woven through with evidence of extractive economies. At the center of the book, a poem by Donika Kelly offers a further queering of interspecies relationships as the narrator’s body transforms into a menagerie of creatures. The publication offers a celebration of the queer and promiscuous fauna by whom we are surrounded and shaped.” -Corinne Teed
6.25” x 6.25” x 0.25”
*Consignment item. Not eligible for 10% membership discount. All consignment purchases are final and non-refundable once shipped.
Corinne Teed (they/them) is a research-based artist working in printmaking, book arts, time-based media, and social practice. Their work lives at the intersections of queer theory, ecology, and critical animal studies in the context of settler colonialism. Much of their creative practice centers on relationships, whether through collaboration, participation, interview-based research, or encounters with the more-than-human.
Teed’s artist books, prints, installations, and video work have been exhibited nationally and internationally, in traditional gallery spaces and DIY pop-ups. They have attended several residencies, including the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Women’s Studio Workshop, and ACRE Projects.
