Dear Marmam, Please find information for inclusion on your digest on the new publication, Dominion: A Whale Symposium, from Wunderkammer Press/ Bath Spa University. best wishes Philip Hoare NEW RELEASE FOR REVIEW: DOMINION, A WHALE SYMPOSIUM AN EVOCATIVE COLLECTION OF IMAGES, ARTISTS' ESSAYS, SCIENCE WRITING AND PHOTOGRAPHY Wunderkammer Press has published Dominion, A Whale Symposium following a ground-breaking exhibition and symposium at Plymouth University. http://www.wunderkammerpress.com/ The Dominion exhibition and Whale Festival, held in February 2011, was the first in of its kind in the UK. It explored the iconography of the whale in art, science and history, through film, music, poetry and gallery talks. The result was a unique celebration of the cultural links between art and science, as seen through the abiding, mysterious shape of these extraordinary animals. Dominion, A Whale Symposium contains new essays by artists, writers, curators and scientists. Contributors include Hal Whitehead, world-renowned sperm whale expert, and a provocative keynote essay by Philip Hoare, winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for his book, Leviathan or, the Whale. The texts are punctuated by full colour images of extraordinary new work by Angela Cockayne, Reader in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Practice, created from found objects and biodegradable materials. The book also includes stunning images of sperm whales in the Azores and Sri Lanka by underwater photographer Andrew Sutton. Also reproduced, for the first time, are the remarkable storyboards created by Stephen Grimes for John Huston's 1956 film of Moby-Dick. This interdisciplinary project speaks to writers and artists, as well as students of natural history, music, literature, and photography. It is a collaboration which draws together international critical writings and discussions from world experts on important ecological issues. At its heart is a homage to Herman Melville whose unique masterpiece Moby-Dick - a text as pertinent today as when it was first written in 1851 - inspired the project. Contributors to Dominion, A Whale Symposium include: . Philip Hoare, writer . Angela Cockayne, artist . Hal Whitehead, scientist . Nick Atkinson, musician . Sarah Chapman, curator . Anthony Caleshu, poet . Ruth Leeney, scientist . Alexis Kirke, musician . Sam Richards, musician . Michael Hall, curator About Angela Cockayne Angela Cockayne, born Yorkshire now lives and works in Bath, England. She is an artist, and Reader in Interdisciplinary Visual Arts Practice Bath Spa University. Her books include Provenance (2010) and Dominion (2012) both co-authored with Philip Hoare and published by Wunderkammer Press. Her recent project, Provenance, melds wax sculpture with found natural objects. Her work has recently toured with The House of Fairy Tales Exquisite Trove, an exhibition inspired by cabinets of curiosities or Wunderkammer. Dominion incorporates Cockayne's chimerical objects, part animal, and part sculpture, with Philip Hoare's physical interaction with sperm whales. Using artwork and text thrown up by this new meeting of art, literature, music and science, the result is an aesthetic sermon on the state of the whale and the world. The film of the same name has been screened as part of the Dark Monarch exhibition (Tate St Ives 2009 and recently Tate Liverpool). Cockayne uses found objects to create provocative assemblies of discarded bottles, gannets' wings, human hair, antique rifles and lobster-clawed women. Beautiful and disturbing, they concern the natural world and the human predicament.' About Philip Hoare Philip Hoare is the author of six works of non-fiction, including biographies of Stephen Tennant and Noel Coward, the historical studies Wilde's Last Stand, Spike Island, and England's Lost Eden. His latest book, Leviathan or, The Whale, won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. He wrote and presented BBC 2's Arena: The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC 4's Whale Night. He is a visiting fellow at Southampton University, and Leverhulme Artist in-residence at The Marine Institute, Plymouth University, which recently awarded him an honorary doctorate. He lives and works in Southampton. http://www.wunderkammerpress.com/