Looking at Birds Looking… and Making (Art)
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https://doi.org/10.24310/BoLArte.2019.v0i40.6642Abstract
Looking at (other) animals is a widespread human activity, either in a more tangible or in a more conceptual sense as, for instance, W. J. T. Mitchell suggests in his essay Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking. According to one of the conclusions and proposals of this author, we may have to learn again how to look at animals. As animal studies have been doing for decades now, this article approaches the perspectives of non-human animals, and specifically, of birds, to try to consider them on their own terms, beyond human ones. In order to do this, it gathers a series of stories through which it dialogues with Mitchell’s text and structure not just to look at birds looking, but also to look at birds exercising their agency, and making. Even illusionism and art, thus blurring the boundaries between human and non-human animals.
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