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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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Uncertainty in the City
- 2011
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Ingår i: People, Places, Stories. 28-30th Sept. 2011, Linnaeus University, Kalmar.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract Uncertainty in the City: Pets, Pests and Prey For millennia, humans have been making divisions between themselves and other animals. By building settlements, towns and cities, they created a refuge and a physical division separating themselves from wild animals. The artists Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson explored these divisions through their art project Uncertainty in the City. In this project they travelled with a mobile radio station interviewing people about their relationships to non-human animals. The result a series of stories located in the ever-shifting margins of tolerance, gathering anecdotes and stories of human/animal cohabitation, encroachment and mutually beneficial partnerships. This paper discusses their art project and some of the stories recorded.
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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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Uncertainty in the City: Pets, Pests and Prey
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Ingår i: Uncertainty in the City: Pets, Pests and Prey, 21st Sept. to 27th of November 2010, Storey Gallery, Lancaster, UK.
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- An exhibition in which the artists Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson explore our complex feelings towards our ‘animal others’. In 2007 Storey Gallery commissioned the artist team Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson to develop a project investigating the various and complex relationships between human and non-human animals in shared and contested spaces. Working primarily in the city of Lancaster and the surrounding area, with a variety of individuals, businesses and organisations, the artists burrowed around the ever-shifting margins of tolerance, gathering anecdotes and stories of human/animal cohabitation, encroachment and symbiotic partnerships. In addition, they toured around the UK with a mobile radio unit, visiting people’s homes, country fairs, and town centres, documenting the multiplicity of people’s feelings towards animals-in-proximity. The conversations were recorded and aired live on Radio Animal, an online radio station created by Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, dedicated to their discourse around human/animal relations. For millennia, humans have been making divisions between themselves and other animals. By building settlements, towns and cities, they created shelter and insulation from wild animals. However, animals have always been attracted to concentrations of human population because of the opportunities these provide for habitat and food. For some humans, the presence of these creatures – pigeons, starlings, rats, mice, foxes, and all manner of insects - constitutes a threat, a kind of leakage. It highlights the fragility of our insulation from the ‘wild’, its unpredictability, and the seeming chaos of ‘nature’. The exhibition Uncertainty in the City: Pests, Pets, and Prey explores this animal infringement through the use of sound, sculpture, text, video, and photography. It builds a picture of human ambivalence towards animals – of tolerance and intolerance, of fear and loathing, of affection, conflict, and admiration - and at the same time it explores more broadly our own duplicity in relation to ideas of the ‘other’.
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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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Uncertainty in the City: Pets, Pests and Prey
- 2011
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: Uncertainty in the City is a result of a research project in which Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson investigated the margins of tolerance in the fraught relationship between humans and other animals. During their research they observed ambivalence and contradictory vested interests in relation to a wide range of creatures. Most significant is the mixture of responses, the paradoxical nature of human attitudes towards agents of the ‘wild’, and the implicit cohesion-in-tension of the human/nature paradigm. Uncertainty in the City is a guidebook that looks at the human response to the other, to the animals that surround us. The form of the book refers to the genre of field guides and thus underlines the research-based nature of the artistic practice of Snæbjörnsdòttir/Wilson. With contributions by Erica Fudge, Chris Wilbert, Peter Lurz, Rikke Hansen and Suzy Jones.
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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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Vanishing Point.
- 2011
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Ingår i: The GIBCA Speak Easy, 7th September 2011, House of Win Win, Gothenburg Biennial 2011..
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet
- 2011
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Ingår i: Animal Gaze 2011, 27th-28th of October 2011, the Metropolitan University London..
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Abstract: Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet Vanishing Point: Where Species Meet is the title of Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson’s most recent artwork, which was part of the Gothenburg Biennial 2011. 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.
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- Snæbjørnsdóttir, Bryndis, 1955, et al.
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What We Can Do: Art Methodologies
- 2011
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Ingår i: Representing Animals (in Britain), Univeristy of Rennes, France, 21st October 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- What We Can Do: Art Methodologies and Parities in Meeting (abstract) Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson The equally manifest senses of purpose, enthusiasm and urgency generated within animal studies groups internationally over the last few years have led many to adopt a position of moral virtue and to an acceptance of greater commonality between human and non-human animals, bound up in a broad set of sensibilities kindled by the residual sparks of late 20th Century race, gender and sexuality discourse. Much has been written and much read and from this basis and a back catalogue of theoretical writing has provided the framework not only of thought, but also of response and discursive action. The irony in this seems to be that in sanctioning a dependency on the same learned and developed faculties, (being those of language), the absence of which in other species has been used traditionally to demonstrate our distance from and superiority to non-human animals, we continue to distinguish and distance ourselves from, rather than draw any closer to our subject and by so doing compromise the possibility of the ‘otherness’ of understanding that might otherwise accrue around alternative approaches. Where such approaches are attempted, the results are often dismissed as being fanciful – impossible to evaluate on the simple grounds of their intrinsic lack of accountability by means of rational analysis. Citing the artwork of our collaborative partnership as well as the work of related thinkers and practitioners, this paper examines the apparent conundrum of thinking without words, using art methodologies to approach a new understanding of our relations with other species. It acknowledges relationality as being pivotal to this project and indeed as a crucial paradigm for the application of our intellect to the puzzle of our environmental crisis and inertia.
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