breeding systems : who gets to own their body?
casting as breeding and birthing
Horsehair plaster
Press molds--elemental matter pressed onto a bodily form or referent [ the abstractions produced by manure pressed into hair and hooves ]
[ and
zoonotic diseases -- species porousness --bodily porousness -- geopolitical porousness }
or, simply how do I get sculptures here to there (or, in more theoretical terms--site to non-site--thinking of Arnaud's thoughtful discussion here) without contaminating?
Breeding systems, the bioessentialism of reproductive systems (discounts prevalence of queer expressions in "nature" [complicated wc] and between non-human animals) — to build a bridge for viewers between abstraction and representation
Mare pregnancy tests - urine - menopause treatments [Premarin]
breeding as a process that replicates the trauma and violence of domestication across generations + species
issues of reproduction and bodily autonomy-- questions of who gets to own their own bodies and who is historically / currently used as property / commodity
foregrounded by current waves of transphobic and anti-feminist legislation in the United States (they are both related and sometimes very much at odds bc politics that foreground the political experience of gendered bodies are often (intentionally or unintentionally) transphobic + / e.g., bioessentialist)
if we stopped breeding non-human animals
we would disrupt technologies
of domestication and maybe need to? confront human-animal desires
[ who / how / what we consume within systems ]
and our contributions [ waste streams ] to environmental destruction and
environmental racism through the reproduction of violence
across species
interspecies friendship
in addition to critique
and simple truth telling
about the masking of violence
across - through - between
species
beauty is important as a sensation or
as a form of communication
with but also without - between - beyond
language
[or at least human verbal language(s) ]. how to speak through touch
or how to know when not to touch when presence without force is what it needed
when to enjoy the textures of sunbathing and smells of foraging for wild mint
these things are beauty and they sprout
right next to violence
[ each: yours , mine , and ours to share ]
an altar for Peacocks, Roosters, Hens, and Pigeons
making an offering without turning on the lights-- a sign that a human is coming into your space but not for slaughter or sale
allogrooming as a form of sociality and interspecies friendship -- it is not frivolous it is life-giving
to be present without force
more soon:
heath checks - orifices - privacy / lack - under domestication
the necessary persistence of being in proximity to - or standing in excrement
how majestic beings like Horses are romanticized + fetishized but also asked to endure harmful and abusive circumstances
i.e., what glamorization is and does to being(s)
pastoral imaginary / imagery (propagated throughout art history, consumer marketing + distance)
allogrooming
foraging
matriarchy
dud studs
Stallion boundaries + care
historical / mythological allegories for gender-based violence that absorb non-human animals
abortion / miscarriage / resistance and biting as a form of birth control
isolation of the Ram after breeding season / before sale
the nature / culture binary of masculinity
[ i guess what i'm trying to say - somewhat allegorically -is that i'm interested in the ways that toxic masculinity (also, and, +)
harms cis-men ]
psychic / non-verbal communication
embodiment
standing ankle-deep in each other's shit to be together
to be different (perceptually, physically, linguistically etc.) and still to be, together