Visible and Invisible Animals in Art History
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Researcher and artist EvaMarie Lindahl talks about how she is working to highlight the involvement of animals in art history. What stories can be highlighted if we look at art history with a focus on species other than humans? What individuals hide behind the plethora of animals we see depicted when we visit a museum of art? During her presentation (in Swedish), Lindahl will give short readings from selected works, focusing on portrayed animals, and will briefly present the concepts and methods she has developed during her thesis on artistic research in the field of critical animals studies.
(The lecture is held in Swedish)
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EvaMarie Lindahl
EvaMarie Lindahl is a visual artist and researcher. Her research-based art projects occur at the intersection between critical animal studies and visual art. Lindahl has developed an art practice that encompasses large-scale pencil drawings as well as text-based performance works. In her projects, Lindahl constantly questions the writing of art history from an anthropocentric and patriarchal position, by correcting, rewriting and imagining new (art) histories. Her research project Resistance Within the Museum Fauna – Challenging Anthropocentrism through Counter Art Histories and Non-Human Narratives is a thesis in the field of artistic research and critical animal studies, which uses anthropomorphism and empathy to write and convey art histories centring on non-human animals. She challenges the human-animal dichotomy, and discusses the human tendency to oppress other animals by using them as resources and materials in art production.
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The museum welcomes the great and varied fauna of art! We celebrate with a grand opening that has something for everyone. Discover botany, listen to birdsong, learn things you never knew about lobsters, paint a clump of bladder wrack, or talk about leopards. Summer begins on Sunday 7 May at The Nordic Watercolour Museum!
Program 7 May