The lecture explores the strategies, emotions, and concerns of the creative process, dedicated to remembering, contemplating, and mourning animal sacrifices. The considerations will be based on such contemporary artworks as: Chicken Truck (2007) – Sunaura Taylor’s mouth-painted work; objects by Linnea Ryshke, e.g. Bone-Stones: Relics of Our Wreckage (2020) – a series of stone slabs created of animal bones and Remains (2020), a work resulting from a 47-day process of drawing, painting over, drying, grinding, and ash collection; a series of a thousand sculptures of pigs by Kathryn Eddy; Karolina Wajda’s sculpture titled Human and Non-Human Beings (2022), made up of e.g. animal bones, remains of creatures killed by people; an object by Martyna Jastrzębska titled Sick Skin (2020); the work Copybooks (2019) and Each Day From Scratch (2019) by Michalina W. Klasik; the series Exercises in Empathy. Photographs Found (2017) by Elwira Sztetner, and Isa Leshko’s photographs from the album Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries (The University of Chicago Press, 2019).

On request - a shared experience of a time of commemoration with a performative reading of excerpts of Konrad Góra's litany poetry.

Dariusz Gzyra - philosopher, author, artist, social activist. After the publication of his book Dziękuję za świńskie oczy. Jak krzywdzimy zwierzęta [Thank You for Your Pig's Eyes. How we hurt animals ] (Wydawnictwo Krytyki Politycznej, 2018), he was nominated for the Paszporty POLITYKI award. He teaches anthropozoology at the Faculty of Artes Liberales, University of Warsaw. A lecturer of the interdisciplinary postgraduate course in Animal Rights at SWPS University. Member of the Animal Affairs Committee of the Polish Ethical Society. Author of several dozen scientific articles. Editor of the animal rights ethics section of Zoophilologica. Polish Journal of Animal Studies. Creator of the podcast Important Not Important.

The meeting will be interpreted into the Polish Sign Language.

admission free

photo: Zeszyty (2019), Michalina W. Klasik, dzięki uprzejmości artystki