Interspecies Collaboration (Art 185LJ) Spring 2014

Read Chapter 7: The Country of the Mind from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez. [class reader]
Write a couple of paragraphs discussing the parts that you find most interesting in the text. Be prepared to discuss the text.

Submitt your text to the site:

Add Content->Text
Title: whatever you want
Type: Other
Submit

Add your profile to the Interspecies Collaboration Website. Write at least 300 words about your interest in Interspecies Collaboration, you can also write about special memories you have with some animal, or your connection to animals in general. Unfortunately you can't go back and edit your entry right now, so make sure you are submitting what you want to submit.

Also start communicating with and/or pay attention to the animals you meet during your day.

Read Chapter 1: The Turkey Trot and Chapter 4: Interspecies Protocol from The Man Who Talks to Whales: the Art of Interspecies Communication by Jim Nollman (2002) [class reader]

Be prepared to discuss the texts in class. Write a paragraph about what is the most interesting to you about each chapter.
Submitt the paragraps to the site:

Add Content->Text
Title: whatever you want
Type: Other
Subject: Art Made Together With Non Human Animals
Animals Involved: Whale, Rooster (maybe more...)
Text: Your paragraphs about the chapters
Connect Text To ->Resource
Select "The Man Who Talks With Whales ..."
Submit

Write at least 500 words about the interspecies collaborations you are working on. Upload at least a few images and/or video every week to document the projects and/or your research.

To submit the "project" to the site: Add Content->Art Project
When you have submitted the project, you add pictures to it by going to the project (click on By Collaborators-> Art Projects). On the project page click Add Media

Go out in your neighbourhood. Attempt to communicate with an animal (could be a spider, ant, scrub jay, squirrel, cat etc) you meet using what you learned in Barbara Janell's workshop. Take pictures of the animal, and the site you are at and maybe yourself. Write a description of your experience of the communictation on the website and upload some of the photos. If you have access to a pet do the same with a pet.
In addition, on the same page, include comments about your experience in the workshop and also the movie you saw last week.
Submit the "project" to the site: Add Content->Art Project
When you have submitted the project, you add pictures to it by going to the project (click on By Collaborators-> Art Projects). On the project page click Add Media

Write at least 500 words about the interspecies collaborations you are working on. Upload at least a few images and/or video every week to document the projects and/or your research.

Upload documentation and descriptions of your local excursion experience and collaboration to the Interspecies Collaboration Website.

Write at least 500 words about the interspecies collaborations you are working on. Upload at least a few images and/or video every week to document the projects and/or your research.

Read Introduction Chapter: The idiot, the Voyeur and the Moralist from Artist Animal (Posthumanities) by Steve Baker (2013) [class reader]

Address some or all of these questions in writing:

1. What does Steve Baker think of Randy Malamud and others who criticize artists working with animals of being non-ethical?
2. According to Baker, what is the issue with looking at the ethical issues of an artwork before making a proper reading of it?
3. What is some of Baker's criticism of the Rat Piece and Helena?
4. Is Baker defending the Rat Piece and Helena? If so how/why?
5. According to Baker, can we trust artist to work with/use animals?
6. Do you think artist have ethical responsibilities? Why/why not? What are those ethical responsibilities in regards to working with animals?
7. What does Bryndis Snaebjornsdotter mean when she says it is impossible to ask if it is ethical to use animals in art without also asking if it is ethical to use them in science and for food? Do you agree/disagree?

Read Bees Making Art: Insect Aesthetics and the Ecological Moment by Mary Kosut & Lisa Jean Moore
Address these questions in writing:

1. What important questions/issues does the text bring up?
2. How are the approaches to art making with animals different and/or similar than the ones discussed in Baker's text?

Add the text you write to the interspecies collaboration site (see details on class site). Be prepared to discuss these and other issues in class.
Submitt your text to the site:

Add Content->Text
Title: whatever you want
Type: Other
Subject: Art Related to Animal Rights
Text: Your text about the chapter
Connect Text To ->Resource
Select "Artist Animal" and "Bees Making Art: Insect Aesthetics and the Ecological Moment"
Submit

We will talk about your exhibition project in class and there will be time to work on things like editing photos, sound, video. So bring your ideas, digital files, drawings and other materials that you need to work on and want input on.

Write at least 500 words about the interspecies collaborations you are working on. Upload at least a few images and/or video every week to document the projects and/or your research.

Write at least 500 words about the interspecies collaborations you are working on. Upload at least a few images and/or video every week to document the projects and/or your research.

Select one or several projects you worked on during the quarter and have them ready for exhibition.