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Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
The themes of vegetality, entanglement, and symbiosis —emblems of postanthropocentric aesthetics and politics—run throughout the exhibition. Works by artists such as Arthur Boyd, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, and Regina de Miguel emphasize the agency of animal, microbial, and plant life and the interconnectedness of all beings. They explore how... See more
Terraphilia
Humanity, the fable goes, is the pathway to its own salvation. This circular proposition reveals something obvious and troubling: humanitarianism is anthropocentric. This is obvious because humanitarianism champions the unique qualities and significance of human existence. Obvious because humanitarianism seeks to improve distinctly human lives.... See more
Humanitarianism - Benjamin Meiches - Animal Minds, Humanitarian Designs: Interventions with Nonhuman Others
Re-affirming the body as a key material of interaction design, and the interactions between bodies and ecosystems a key subject of study, this project explores how understanding the more-than-human bodies we are nested within, and have nested within us, may alter our perceptions of the worlds we live in and share.