"Dead Museum Animals: Natural Order or Cultural Chaos?"
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.
Libby Robin discusses animals in museums, and how taxidermy has changed from art in the service of science to the backbone of art itself, both in museums and beyond.
Libby Robin compares two major museum exhibitions on climate change that rely heavily on the IPCC models: Uppdrag Klimat (Mission: Climate Earth), at the Royal Natural History Museum in Stockholm (Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet), Sweden; and EcoLogic, at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
Through speculative, poetic, and provocative texts, thirteen writers and artists have come together to reflect on human relationships with other species and the planet.
Tracing ticks in two different artworks and Leslie Feinberg’s activist writing, Wibke Straube takes their lead in this article from philosopher Donna Haraway and her suggestion to think about engagement with the environment through an “ethics of response-ability.”
Die Ausstellung “Fleischloser Humor. Der frühe Vegetarismus im Zerrspiegel der Karikatur” von Evi Zemanek und Sophia Burgenmeister (2019) ist mit einer Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license lizensiert.
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Karikaturen über Vegetarier und den Vegetarismus waren im letzten Viertel des 19. Jahrhunderts keine absolute Seltenheit – und doch handelt es sich um besondere Funde, die in aufwendiger Recherche erst entdeckt werden müssen in den Fluten von Spott über die Geschlechterverhältnisse, bestimmte Berufsgruppen und politische Positionen. Zwar kann man dank fortschreitender Digitalisierung von Satire-Blättern zunehmend besser gezielt nach Vegetarier-Karikaturen suchen, jedoch ist das Gros der Zeitschriften noch lange nicht erschlossen.
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In the early phase of the vegetarian movement, satirists playfully imagined how this diet and worldview affected different aspects of culture. Other cartoons make fun of the fact that vegetarianism quickly became a trend that was seen as sign of the Zeitgeist of the 1880s. Surprisingly, they overlooked the fact that vegetarianism was indeed intended as a sociocultural reform that could contribute to social and gender equality. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.
Since vegetarian societies began to spread and organize events in Germany, their missionary attitude and their supposed moral superiority have been ridiculed. Caricatures mocked the rigid rules of the vegetarians and their societies, accusing them of hypocrisy or of reinterpreting the self-imposed prohibitions according to their own needs and weaknesses. This is from the German version of “Satirical Glimpses of the Cultural History of Vegetarianism.” For the English-language version of this exhibition, click here.