In May 2022, Exeter’s Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics (EASE) working group member, Jes Hooper, travelled to Helsinki to deliver a seminar on human-civet interactions. The seminar was part of an ongoing transdisciplinary and transnational project with Finnish art duo Harrie Liveart, and was held in their solo exhibition in Gallery Forum Box, Finland.
The exhibition comes from the multiyear artistic project ‘Collective Perversion – Proposal for Revaluation’, an investigation of water consumption from the perspective of the water toilet which makes tangible the alienation that fuels capitalist exploitation. The artists have set out to challenge this alienation, drawing attention to cultural attitudes towards bodily processes and to the significance of more-than-human entanglements both within our bodies and wider ecosystems.
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Anthrozoology as Symbiotic Ethics 