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Multispecies Storytelling

Two grey parrots, playing with a stick, are collaborating with an artist, who is writing in a book
What stories would animals tell, if we could understand them? | © 2023 Hörner/Antlfinger

A chance to dive into the world of Animal Studies

Goethe-Institut Glasgow

Taking inspiration from Donna Haraway's provocations to think with our furry, feathered, scaly kin, this set of short talks and public dialogue among artists and scholars will pose the question of how animals tell stories and what stories they might be tellling. Moving beyond a literary studies approach, this event opens up urgent questions in the time of climate emergency, asking what we can learn from animals and how we might begin to take them seriously as cohabitants but also cocreators of meaning and lifeways.  

Researchers Erica Fudge (Strathclyde University) and Hörner/Antlfinger (Academy for Media Arts, Cologne) will be in conversation with illustrator Rebecca Guthrie (author of the artist chapbook Creature, 2023) to explore some of the entanglements between animal & human lives and cultures. 

Copies of Rebecca's book will be available. 


Book Launch and Exhibition
The artist Rebecca Guthrie will be present at the opening on 7 December 2023 at the Goethe-Institut Glasgow to introduce her work.

Details

Goethe-Institut Glasgow

3 Park Circus
G3 6AX Glasgow

Language: English
Price: free

Culture-Glasgow@goethe.de

Event in library; exhibition in main hall