Donna Haraway: Story Telling for Earthly Survival (2016), Fabrizio Terranova.
Film of Donna Haraway and her dog Cayenne at their home in Southern California, exploring their personal universe as well as the longer development of Haraway's views on Kinship and planetary welfare.
'Trans-species relationships' - no distinctions made between humans, animals, machines. Her deep commitments to feminism and environmentalism - plotting a 'rebellious and hopeful future.' Keep doing positive things, write a positive story - you have to be HERE not everywhere.
Joan Jonas - performance/film with her dogs.
Exhibition for Dogs: Dog Show, Southwark Park Galleries
Politics of milk:
William Wegman: Dog Duet (1975), The Spelling Lesson (1977), Dog Baseball
Edit film: Bits of it worked - close-ups, fingers in the way, sound with image/pushing image - texture, senses - Tension - what is the dog digging up? What is beneath the soil? Link to sculptural objects I made.
Sculptural objects - hands and feet shape-shifting? becoming claws or paws or animal like. The objects have a painterly feel - they become more experimental - need to push further, more movement in the clay skin moulds - different colour pigments to dye Jesmonite. - Clay has real energy / capturing energy / holding energy.
Voice - what is the voice referencing? Shamanism? embodied wild free voice - connected to Ludo - how? Authenticity of relationship / friendship / entanglement / durational encounter
Animal body present - instinctive - Ludo does not think about doing, he acts - no disruption by linear / analytical thought processes
Proximity and distance. Closeness. hand - dominance / controlling / friendship?
Rooting being - voice/sounds from this / from rooted body - is this body a space outside of culture? tension between this and constructed human - am I trying to get to a place outside of language?
imitate Ludo - no - be myself, authentic meeting - togetherness -
is film bringing the viewer to state of embodiment?
URSULA LE GUIN - story within a story - dialects - words 'words are events..'
performance ideas - costume - shape-shift - become Ludo
in the ugly there is energy! the ABJECT
Earth Man - Jewish Golum - Mud Man - made of clay
Anthropological - spiritual / transcended state - earth-bound rooted state - bridging them.
Power dynamics in relationship - pack mentality - co-existing - sharing space/ lives
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