[spectre] New podcast: Finish artist Terike Haapoja invites us to imagine this posthumanism: a hybrid, expansive, empathetic “we” with room for ambiguity and difference and for interspecies political understanding

[Radio Web MACBA]

New podcast: Finish artist Terike Haapoja
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-308-terike-haapoja> invites us to
imagine this posthumanism: a hybrid, expansive, empathetic “we” with room
for ambiguity and difference and for interspecies political understanding,
in which the morbid fantasy of human exceptionalism and the hierarchy of
species is put to rest once and for all.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sonia-308-terike-haapoja

Music by Dave Phillips <http://www.davephillips.ch/about>

A heat-sensitive infrared camera films a horse just after its death and
shows how the colourful thermographic image fades as the body cools. A
political party proposes giving voice to “the other”, society’s silent
non-human majority. A museum of cattle reconstructs and recounts history
from the bovine ruminant viewpoint. Terike Haapoja, Finnish artist and
adjunct professor at Parsons Fine Arts and NYU, has spent years
deconstructing the anthropocentrism of our worldview, exploring the
political and existential boundaries of our broken social model.

Alone or in collaboration with writer Laura Gustafsson, Terike Haapoja
appropriates and subverts the structures and idioms of established
institutions – museums, political parties, courts – and uses their
authority and cultural weight to question entrenched notions of
animalisation and otherness, in an attempt to find ethical ways to coexist
with nonhuman beings.

Drawing on concepts such as Syl Ko’s black veganism, Sue Donaldson and Will
Kymlicka’s expanded theory of animal rights, and Carol J. Adams’ sexual
politics of meat, Terike Haapoja ventures to imagine a world beyond
animalisation and distinctions between protected and disposable beings. Her
immersive installations and large-scale projects highlight the convergence
of racialisation and animalisation in nation states, showing historical and
current parallels in the conditioning imposed on subhuman and nonhuman
beings.

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