Snaebjornsdottir, Bryndis and Wilson, Mark
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4123-2118
(2011)
Vanishing point: where species meet.
In: The Animal Gaze Returned, 27-28 October 2011, London Metropolitan University, UK.
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Abstract
Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet is the title of Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s most recent artwork, which will feature in the exhibition The Animal Gaze Returned. The title, which references Donna Haraway’s book When Species Meet, pinpoints significant ambiguities in meetings between human and animal. The focus of this artwork is the attempt by the artist to share a meal with members of another species, namely seagulls, on camera. The three-screen video work sets out the conditions for a meeting but does not fetishize or document the act of species coming together. The talk will explore the thinking behind this artwork and the processes of its making. It will question the ambition of recording an equal meeting between human and animal, at least on camera and in the context of contemporary art, whilst avoiding either being sensationalist or prompting readings of domestication. It proposes that despite the impossibility of a visual exposition of this meeting, a meeting has nevertheless occurred which as a consequence, provides the basis for considering the nature and the possibilities of such a connection.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Journal / Publication Title: | n/a |
| Departments: | Academic Departments > Institute of Arts (IOA) > Fine Arts |
| Depositing User: | Insight Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Feb 2012 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jan 2024 10:16 |
| URI: | https://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/1259 |
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