Image: Rick Pas, Urban Coyote
GALLERY PROJECT PRESENTS: INTERSPECIES
January 3 - February 10, 2013
Reception: Friday, January 4, 6-9pm
Please join me for the opening of this exciting group show!
Gallery Project presents Interspecies,
a multimedia exhibit in which 32 local, regional, and national artists,
filmmakers, and scientists explore issues of cooperation and other
forms of complex interactions between animals and humans and between
different animal species. As a culture, our understanding of these
relationships is often based on false and outdated assumptions about
animal intelligence and behavior. New research mainly from field
biologists and laboratory scientists is finding evidence of intergroup
cooperation and communication including such behaviors as sharing of
territories and food, cooperative hunting, reciprocity, mutualism, care
giving, play, and anti-predator behaviors such as alarm calls and
signaling. While cooperation is the primary focus of the exhibit,
other forms of interactions will be explored including exploitation. We
are also interested in what happens when animal habitats are encroached
by humans and vice versa.
Artists,
filmmakers, and scientists include James Atkinson, Carol Reed Barrett,
Marc Bekoff, Tom Bohnert, Gay Bradshaw, Liliana Cortes-Ortiz, Cyril
Cristo, Rocco DePietro, Craig Dongoski, David Edwards, Margaret J.
Eppstein, Norbert Freese, Katie Halton, Ladislav Hanka, Sue Hassard,
Beth Kingsley Hawkins, Dellas Henke, Boryana Rusenova Ina, Britta
Jaschinski, Annie Kilabuk, Michael McGillis, Charles Menzel, Rick Pas,
Irene Pepperberg, Emily Roz, Charlie Russell, Michael Sarnacki,
Elisabeth Shank, Matthew Traxler, Michael Weber, Marie Wilkenson, and
Cristina Zenato. The exhibit is curated by Linda Kalof, professor of
sociology and director of Animal Studies at Michigan State University,
and Rocco DePietro and Gloria Pritschet, directors of Gallery Project.
Image: Rick Pas, Urban Coyote |
