"Animanimal/Mammal/Manimal" Exhibition
Light Industry
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This exhibition presents films, videos, paintings and performances made in response to, or concerned with, the following narrative:
1. One imagines there was a time when there was no separation between Animal and Human. Perhaps at this time Human is not even what we call a human, having no capacity for self-reflection. Human has not yet learned to distinguish or fabricate a hierarchy of life, and sees itself as an integrated part of its environment.
2. Human learns from Animal. Human's survival is directly affected by Animal and just as Human is left to the "whims" of the weather it is left to the "whims" of Animal. Human is still tied to an ecological system while simultaneously developing an awareness of this system and its workings. Animal is teacher, predator and prey.
3. Human relates to Animal as Other. It defines itself by traits it sees in Animal, and, conversely, it assigns its own motives to the actions of the animals around it. This recognition of the aliveness and difference of animals establishes Animal as a resonator of Human's own curiosities, fears, desires. Human creates elaborate myths, using Animal as characters, which explain Human's identity and the workings/origins of the world around it.
...and more 3 narratives.
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Schedule
August 19, 2008 from 20:00