Context

ANIMAL LOVE
Mara-Daria Cojocaru 

Video

The video is available in German.

Philosophy lecturer and writer Mara-Daria Cojocaru ties in with themes from Yalda Afsah’s exhibition. The contribution ANIMAL LOVE deals with the topic of the care of humans towards animals from the point of view of animal ethics. Is the subject of animal love a precondition of the scientific study of animals? To what extent can one speak of an emphatic intertwining of humans?

 

Recommended reading:
Mara-Daria Cojocaru, Menschen und andere Tiere. Plädoyer für eine leidenschaftliche Ethik, WBG 2021.
Friederike Schmitz (Hg.), Tierethik. Grundlagentexte, Suhrkamp 2014.
Peter Singer, Animal Liberation. A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals, Random House 1975.
Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights, University of California Press. 1983.
Lori Gruen, Entangled Empathy. An Alternative Ethic for Our Relationships With Animals, Lantern Publishing & Media 2014.
Arianna Ferrari und Klaus Petrus (Hg.), Lexikon der Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen, transcript 2015.

More contributions

Diedrich Diederichsen
Vortrag 

Video

On the basis of his contribution to the publication, conceived against the backdrop of Poledna’s film produced in Los Angeles in the summer of 2024 especially for the exhibition at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, Diederichsen will discuss and present Mathias Poledna’s artistic career with references to music and art history as well as pop culture.

Diedrich Diederichsen

Karel Císař
Lecture 

Video

In this lecture, Císař will explore Mathias Poledna’s career and artistic practice against the backdrop of the current exhibition, which can also be understood as a kind of retrospective. 

Karel Císař – Lecture

Mathias Poledna
Exhibition Tour 

Slide show

Mathias Poledna has created a complex, multi-layered body of work in which films, expansive installations and architectural interventions are in constant dialog with each other, where independent series of works, found objects and ephemeral materials all condense to form a singular artistic language. Central to his practice are questions of modernity, cultural memory and the visual imaginary in art and popular culture.

Ausstellungsrundgang Mathias Poledna

Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair
Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery 

Video

The performance Total Romance: Partial Repair is the centerpiece of Isabel Lewis and Dirk Bell’s joint exhibition Ever/​Repair at HALLE FÜR KUNST Steiermark, and is performed by four performers. In… 

Performance Total Romance: Partial Repair Isabel Lewis, Dirk Bell with vocalist, performer and artist Rupert Enticknap and performer and pole dancer Yann Slattery