Proposal
Unit 3 is based on different theoretical perspectives and frameworks that analyze the role of human-animal cultural engagements in the process of identity development. One important strategy is "multispecies ethnography," which intends to shift decision-making power to non-humans and acknowledge their agency, subjectivity, and lived experiences in forming society and culture. By considering animals as active vectors of meaning and value generation instead of mere tools or representative objects, multispecies ethnography unearths another dimension in which human-animal relations have complex and interactive continuity.
To place contemporary human-animal cultural change within a broader historical and cultural context, this study plan to examines historical documents, such as diaries, letters, and newspapers, and cultural artifacts, such as art, literature, and film, to explore the changing representations and meanings of human-animal relations Archival research is conducted in libraries, related museums and archives.
In the third unit, I plan to combine materials with surrealist painting, reduce the elements of the work, increase the interaction between the audience and the work, and make the audience reflect on it in a simple way. The initial plan takes the animal head as the main body, adds human elements, and creates a new human-animal hybrid, which will be placed in a nothingness and irrelevant daily environment, and deepen the audience's reflection through the combination of absurd pictures with new species and materials. This study will attempt to use visual and sensory techniques to analyze various emotional and physical aspects of human and animal communication. These technologies can provide valuable insights into how humans interact and communicate with animals through non-verbal means such as sight, touch, and sound. Visual sensory data will be collected in all work attempts.
The expected form will be a combination of painting and materials, try to use audio and video, presented in the form of space, increase the audience's sense of involvement, and fully think about the relationship between humans and animals.