Encounters in the performance of nature at the London Zoo
by Lena Kimming The author and literature critic J.MCoetzee writes “And indeed it is on creatures least able to bear confinement- creatures who conform least to Descartes’s picture of the soul as a pea imprisoned in a shell, to which further imprisonment is irrelevant-that we see the most devastating effects: in zoos, in laboratories, institutions…
OTHER ANIMALS: ANIMALARIUMS MAIN CONCEPTUAL ENTRANCE
A discussion on the categorisation of Animal / Human and its relationship to the phenomenon of “Show”. HUMAN ANIMALS Humans are animals, and to lump all other animals into one single category diametrically different from human animals is a part of the human-centric story about the relationship between “man and nature”. A story we in…
THE HORSE
A discussion on the relationship between the human idea of riding horse, dressage, control and internalized oppression. Humans have historically domesticated 14 large cloven-hoofed animals: sheep, goat, cow, pig, horse, Arabian camel, Bactrian camel, llama and alpaca, donkey, reindeer, water buffalo, yak, Bali cattle, and Mithan (gayal, domesticated Gaur). Out of these the horse…
DRESSAGE
Dressage (French term, most commonly translated to mean “training”) is a highly skilled form of riding performed in exhibition and competition, as well as an “art” sometimes pursued solely for the sake of mastery. Dressage is described as “the highest expression of horse training” where “horse and rider are expected to perform from memory a…
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