Becomings

by Katherine Wright (University of New England – Australia) Multispecies ethnography is particularly attentive to Becoming’s – what Eben Kirksey and Stefan Helmreich describe as ‘new kinds of relations emerging from nonhierarchical alliances, symbiotic attachments, and the mingling of creative agents.’ Becoming involves a metaphysics that is grounded in connection, challenging delusions of separation. Donna … Continue reading Becomings

Art as a Multispecies Engagement

The following conversation is an edited transcript of a Skype interview from early March 2015.  The text was originally published on the blog of the SYNAPSE – International Curators’ Network of the Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt on 12 April 2015. Anna-Sophie Springer       In 2012 you published your intense book Freedom in Entangled … Continue reading Art as a Multispecies Engagement

The letter B

  Becomings  by Kate Wright Buzz  by Lisa Jean Moore & Mary Kosut  

Wild

Featured image: Escaped serval in Otter Point, BC By Rosemary-Claire Collard (Concordia University))) A walk on the rocky shores of southwest Vancouver Island can always surprise. Often, there are carcasses: once, a skate skeleton; another time, bald eagles feasting on an enormous rotting sea lion whose body lasted for weeks lodged at the tideline. The dried … Continue reading Wild

Eros

by Deborah Bird Rose (University of New South Wales) “Who Wrote the Book of Love?” It’s a corny old song, it asks a ridiculous question, and I had this sudden flash that it invites a truly interesting answer. It has taken about 3.5 billion years to come into its present form. It is written in … Continue reading Eros

The ABCs of Multispecies Studies

Eben Kirksey, Curator and Editor Elan Abrell, Karin Bolender, Laura  McLauchlan, Jeffrey Bussolini, Editorial Board Craig Schuetze, Provocateur Manon Meyer-Hilfiger, Jane Kang, Production and Editorial Assistants Alphabets have been used to make sense of disparate fragments of discourses by philosophers such as Gilles Deleuze and Roland Barthes. They capture emergent concepts that are not fully formed, but … Continue reading The ABCs of Multispecies Studies

Swarming

A Swarm of Poachers by Eben Kirksey, Craig Scheutze (University of California, Santa Cruz) & Nick Shapiro (University of Oxford) Cite as: Kirksey, Eben, Craig Schuetze and Nick Shapiro (2011) Poaching at the Multispecies Salon: Introduction. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 99/100: 130-134 (Download article PDF) A curatorial swarm – a team of six intellectuals – … Continue reading Swarming

Where Banyan Meets Cloud

Poaching Eben Kirksey by Celia Lowe, University of Washington Cite as: Lowe, Celia (2011) Where Banyan Meets Cloud. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 99/100: 144-145 (Download article PDF) Having a chance to “poach” Eben Kirksey’s paper, “From Rhizome to Banyan” from his book Freedom in Entangled Worlds (Duke), is a distinct honor. Having thus far read … Continue reading Where Banyan Meets Cloud

Care

Featured image: A captive Hawaiian crow (Corvus hawaiiensis) being ‘enriched’. by Thom van Dooren (University of New South Wales) What does it mean to care for others at the edge of extinction? What forms might careful scholarship take at this time? In Maria Puig’s recent work, care emerges as a particularly profound engagement with the … Continue reading Care

Deanna Pindell

Featured image: Poetry for Salal by Deanna Pindell Deanna Pindell is an eco­artist whose work addresses the web of interrelationships in which art exists—the physical, biological, cultural, political, and historical aspects of ecosystems. Within this context Pindell’s art practice aims to fuse four themes—Ecology, Sanctuary, Metamorphosis and Remediation—into site-specific public art, gallery installations, and sculptures … Continue reading Deanna Pindell