Animal

"The increasing prominence of the animal question is made possible through the emergence of posthumanism as a central area of study in philosophy. Posthumanism follows the ideas of poststucturalism, which in critical theory challenges the idea of the human as a universal state. Instead it focuses on human identity as emergent, contingent, and multiple, unsettled tidy distinctions and destabilized traditional thinking around mind/body, self/other, and, by extension, human/non human. Posthumanism has pushed this argument further, destabilizing the human as singular and separate, standing above or against 'nature','Technology', or other ways of being. Hence, rethinking the status of the animal poses a threat to the very status of human. The task at hand is to re-evaluate the status of the animal poses a threat to the very status of the human. The task at hand is to re-evaluate the status not only of the animal but also of the human, through the animal, to the posthuman.    The exhibition, Animal, proposes a variety of ways that we can think about animals through representations. What is the animal? What are the affinities and discrepandies between the species? What kind of philosophies has the human animal laid onto the natural world, to what end, and to what future? What connections exist in our multiple ways of being? These are some questions that arise here.