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Resistance within the Museum Fauna

Author: EvaMarie Lindahl
Publisher: Aska Förlag
Language: English

Published: 2023-02-25
ISBN: 978-91-89399-14-3

Hardcover: 156 pages – 78 colour pages, printed fold out, colour poster
Weight: 836 gram
Size: 27 cm x 21 cm x 2 cm
Text: Claire Parkinson, Amelie Björck, Brett Mills, Alex Lockwood and EvaMarie Lindahl
Cover: Alexandra Falagara
Form: Jakob Kaae
Copy editing: Henrik Dahl

Resistance within the Museum Fauna is a book that brings the portrayed non-human animals that populate the walls of the art museum to life. Through text-based artworks, drawings, posters and collages art history is examined from the animals perspective. What sort of histories can we hear through the cracks of the varnish, if we listen carefully? What are the consequences of being studied by an artist?

For the book Claire Parkinson write about anthropomorphism, and Brett Mills and Alex Lockwood write about the consequences artistic and visual work can have on non-human animals. It also contains a conversation between Amelie Björck and EvaMarie Lindahl about how in their respective practices they are critical of the use of non-human animals in visual and artistic work.

“Essential reading for those ready to perceive animals in art with new eyes.”

Carolina Söderholm – Sydsvenskan

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Challenging Anthropocentrism through Counter Art Histories and Non-Human Narratives

Author: EvaMarie Lindahl
Language: English
Layout: Robert Lindblom, Li Lindblom at Beast Studio
Weight: 295 gram
Softcover: 134 pages
Published 2022-10-21
ISBN-13: 9789180592666

The PhD project of visual artist EvaMarie Lindahl is a practice-based thesis within visual art and critical animal studies that is engaged in decentring the human in art history in favour of non-human animals. Lindahl’s work resulted in a thesis centered around her concept Resistance Within the Museum Fauna. The fauna of the art museum is not only a term developed in this research project because of the necessity to hold space for a group of non-human animals whose commonality is that their habitat is the art museum, but also the title of a series of artworks where the core strategy is to embrace anthropomorphism as a radical and empathic tool to envision and imagine new art history where non-human animals are at the centre.

Lindahl’s thesis is written from the firm and unwavering conviction of the rights of all living beings, and that the killing of non-human animals within the production system of visual art needs to end. Therefore, the dissertation ends with a toolkit of exercises written to be used when visiting the art museum. The aim of the toolkit is to create a feeling with another instead of looking at others, and the courage to engage in artworks from a position of empathy towards all species.

More on the research project Resistance Within the Museum Fauna – Challenging Anthropocentrism through Counter Art Histories and Non-Human Narratives can be found on the Phd-Project page. There you can download the appendix and a pdf version of the thesis for free as well as have a look at the artworks that is discussed in the thesis.