Proteoscope » multispecies salon http://proteusgowanus.org/blog The Blog of Proteus Gowanus Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:51:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.1 Multispecies Salon Talks Seek Hope in Blasted Landscapes http://proteusgowanus.org/blog/2012/05/07/multispecies-salon-conversations-seek-hope-in-blasted-landscapes/ http://proteusgowanus.org/blog/2012/05/07/multispecies-salon-conversations-seek-hope-in-blasted-landscapes/#comments Mon, 07 May 2012 16:49:40 +0000 http://proteusgowanus.org/blog/?p=346 Sunday, May 6 was the second in a three part conversation led by Proteus Anthropologist-In-Residence Eben Kirksey, examining what happens when natural and cultural worlds intermingle and collide. Eben is hosting the Multispecies Salon at Proteus Gowanus this spring, a “paraethnographic field site” where anthropologists, biologists, ecoartists and bioartists come together. The Multispecies Salon is a particularly concentrated instance of what Proteus Gowanus offers by serving as a site where the common interests of multiple disciplines can be explored through exhibitions and events that focus on a single theme over the course of a year.

As Eben says of the Multispecies Salon, “Art serve(s) as a companion and catalyst practice for thinking through and against nature-culture dichotomies.”  His first conversation, April 29th, was a presentation and discussion of the Multispecies Salon, entitled ‘Gleanings from a Para-Site’. Yesterday’s conversation turned on the question of finding ‘Hope In Blasted Landscapes’. Next Sunday, May 13 5pm, Eben will lead a conversation on ‘Life in the Age of Biotechnology’.

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