On July 9th our salon featured three panelists who have made careers out of thinking about our relationship with animals in the Anthropocene.

The entire salon is recorded on Zoom. You can access the recording here.

The password is 7g!9#?4K.

Artist, writer, and educator Thyrza Goodeve’s work has explored the maps, real and imaginary, that separate animals and humans. Her writings for Artforum, Art in America,The Guggenheim Magazine,The Brooklyn Rail, and other publications have ranged from cyborgs and Donna Haraway, to Carolee Schneemann and cats. In her presentation she talked about the strangeness and beauty of bats.

Interdisciplinary artist and educator Sarah Grass has shown internationally and most recently at the Spring Art Fair 2020 in Manhattan. Her presentation addressed her psychologically charged drawings of Dachshunds, humans, and other animals. The drawings were at once diaristic, political, ecological, surreal, and often very funny.

Naturalist, author, and artist James Prosek discussed themes from his recent exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (and publication) and an article he is working on for National Geographic about the collapse of the fisheries in the Gulf of Maine. His exhibition Art, Artifact, Artifice at Yale is being extended until November 29th.