STREET ROAD ARTISTS SPACE invites you to join us online Saturday September 9, at 6pm, for the Online Film Premiere of Walking Together by SLQS and a discussion with scholar Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp and artist SLQS, who leads of our year-long Near Dwellers project.
Please join us to meet our currently-exhibiting artist Sarah Le Quang Sang (SLQS) and scholar Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp, who will speak about how their work rethinks animal-human relationships through the lens of performance art.
SLQS will talk about her film Walking Together, on view now at Street Road, that provocatively and poetically situates us in the midst of a walk with rider and horse as they move through the interstitially urban lands of Walthamstow Marshes, in London, United Kingdom. Her film draws us into a meditation on the very essence of our connection to other beings and opens-up opportunities for us to reflect on interspecies intimacy.
Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp will introduce us to her inquiry on how performance artists trouble assumptions of a purported human-animal divide. Her research considers the ethics ofinterspecies practice in contemporary art and performance, with a particular focus on animals and the deep entanglement of contemporary oppressions, and the role that artists take in “Becoming-with-Animal” in the context of wider eco-feminist politics.
Near Dwellers
August 2023 – September 2024
Near Dwellers is a year-long multi-part project hosted by the Tree Museum and Street Road Artists Space that explores understandings of the purported human/animal divide. Near Dwellers includes exhibitions, new scholarship, and public participation, opening up new and multi-faceted ways of understanding animals as creative in-their-own-right, as determinably political in the maintenance of their communal social protocols and kinship ties, and as ordering and organizing the world in ways that are often invisible to humans, but that can be glimpsed through the work of artists who have spent time nurturing relationships with the animals with whom they live alongside.
Near Dwellers and the Sharing of Breath
Sarah Le Quang Sang
August 4 – September 30, 2023
Come join the discussion:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83039029473
September 9, 2023
1-3 pm EST
10am-1pm Pacific
6-8pm BST (UK Time)
Insta @SLQSstudio
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