Alternative Art Spaces as Multispecies Urban Collaborators: Curating Connections at Mediamatic

The incorporation of other-than-human agencies in artistic practice has become increasingly popular within artistic institutions worldwide. The proliferation of exhibitions involving living things signals the willingness to challenge traditional understandings of the human and its positioning in the world. Particular scrutiny will be directed towards the hosting space of such creative endeavors, seeking to shed light on how alternative art institutions, rather than conventional art galleries, provide a particularly promising and prolific context for the overall meaning-making process of multispecies artistic interventions; more specifically, it will be described how those latter provide venues where heightened levels of exploration and ethicality can be attained. The aim of the study is to highlight how cultural institutions’ experimentations with multispecies placemaking lay foundations for the emergence of unprecedented community formations, conscious of the complex and...Show moreThe incorporation of other-than-human agencies in artistic practice has become increasingly popular within artistic institutions worldwide. The proliferation of exhibitions involving living things signals the willingness to challenge traditional understandings of the human and its positioning in the world. Particular scrutiny will be directed towards the hosting space of such creative endeavors, seeking to shed light on how alternative art institutions, rather than conventional art galleries, provide a particularly promising and prolific context for the overall meaning-making process of multispecies artistic interventions; more specifically, it will be described how those latter provide venues where heightened levels of exploration and ethicality can be attained. The aim of the study is to highlight how cultural institutions’ experimentations with multispecies placemaking lay foundations for the emergence of unprecedented community formations, conscious of the complex and interlinked nature of the societies we cohabit. Simply put, the core inquiry that anchors this thesis is: how do alternative art spaces contribute to our understanding of multispecies coexistence in urban communities?Show less

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