LIE-IN (LION) with Shannon Rose Riley at Grimmuseum | Photo by Lindsay Tunkl & Amanda Ribas Tugwell
A woman closely observes the movements and gestures of a lion at the Berlin Zoo. She relies on processes of attention and memory, does not use a camera or writing materials. Later, she enters a gallery and tries to mimetically reenact the gestures andspatial usage of the lion.
This work explores the ways in which humans are informed by and might internalize the lives of nonhuman animal others. It is an exercise in interspecies epistemology, focusing on the role of empathic observation and attentiveness in the construction of knowledge. It addresses interspecies ethics by attempting to, as Donna Haraway says, “...strike up a coherent conversation where humans are not the measure of all things and where no one claims unmediated access to anyone else.” (Bristol)
Joanne Bristol, erogate performer #3, is a multidisciplinary artist currently working on a PhD dissertation titled ‘Towards a Feline Architecture’. Interested in troubling the traditional opposition between nature and culture as she investigates building and
dwelling practices across human and non-human populations, Joanne’s main artistic collaborator for more than a decade has been her housecat, Sabre. It seems only fitting that Sarah, her surrogate, who is now helping her relocate/translate her (inter)spatial research on inter-species relationships from Winnipeg to Berlin, was originally going to be named ‘Feline’ by her mother.
Curated by Ilya Noe
LIE-IN (LION) with Shannon Rose Riley at Grimmuseum | Photo by Lindsay Tunkl & Amanda Ribas Tugwell
A woman closely observes the movements and gestures of a lion at the Berlin Zoo. She relies on processes of attention and memory, does not use a camera or writing materials. Later, she enters a gallery and tries to mimetically reenact the gestures andspatial usage of the lion.
This work explores the ways in which humans are informed by and might internalize the lives of nonhuman animal others. It is an exercise in interspecies epistemology, focusing on the role of empathic observation and attentiveness in the construction of knowledge. It addresses interspecies ethics by attempting to, as Donna Haraway says, “...strike up a coherent conversation where humans are not the measure of all things and where no one claims unmediated access to anyone else.” (Bristol)
Joanne Bristol, erogate performer #3, is a multidisciplinary artist currently working on a PhD dissertation titled ‘Towards a Feline Architecture’. Interested in troubling the traditional opposition between nature and culture as she investigates building and
dwelling practices across human and non-human populations, Joanne’s main artistic collaborator for more than a decade has been her housecat, Sabre. It seems only fitting that Sarah, her surrogate, who is now helping her relocate/translate her (inter)spatial research on inter-species relationships from Winnipeg to Berlin, was originally going to be named ‘Feline’ by her mother.
Curated by Ilya Noe