Project #2

Wilding the Zoo
A project about finding the wild in human
and non-human animals
What does a zoo look like where you are emphatically invited to use your intuition; a zoo where risk and wildness make you aware that your body is equal to the animals, the plants, the earth, the air. Wilding the zoo invites you to taste, sniff, feel, connect and discover yourself being part of nature.
In the post-captive zoo, elements of captivity become construction materials for new anthropocene multispecies communities. Symbols of captivity and speciesism become a source for symbiosis and interspecies complexity. The wild zoo escorts our curiosity back to our pre-human intuition into a post-human interspecies environment.
It searches for new rituals of connection by exploring empathy for the non-human. The wild zoo is like paradise: a walled laboratory of cohabitation...

Related Logs:

June 9, 2022
Dieren in ons Midden – 3 lezingen in de Bastei
June 14, 2020
EXTENDED: Quarantine Zoo at Z2S in the Amstelpark
November 18, 2019
Work in progress: ZOOOF model Multispecies Narratives
March 20, 2019
Rewilding Rituals
February 23, 2019
Interspecies Drawings
November 17, 2017
Zoo for The Incredible Shrinking Man
November 18, 2017
Primaatje

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