Sensory exhibition at the University Museum Utrecht
‘If you are reading this, you are human. But is a human also an animal? Absolutely: an animal that sleeps, plays, eats and knows a great deal. Even though you don’t taste with your feet like a butterfly and you only have one heart, whereas an octopus has three. Every animal experiences the same world in a slightly different way. Yet we live together in a way that is geared towards humans. Could this be improved? Broaden your horizons and dare to learn from (other) animals! Crawl into the skin of a spider, flash like a firefly, sniff like a dog and feel the tension between shrimp and hammerhead shark. How do you want to live together with other animals?’
‘I am an animal!’ is a surprising exhibition for children aged 6 to 12. Through five games, you experience the senses of other animals and get to know their perspective. ‘I am an animal!’ is a collaboration between Eindhoven University of Technology, Wageningen University & Research, Utrecht University and UMC Utrecht. It was developed as part of the Imagining More-than-Human Communities project and funded by the EWUU Centre for Unusual Collaborations (CUCo).
This activity is part of the autumn holidays at the UniversiteitsMuseumUtrecht. The exhibition is open from 11 to 25 October.
Symposium 16 and 17 October
This two-day symposium (Oct 16 & 17) brings together scholars, artists, and practitioners from across disciplines to explore what more-than-human communities might look, feel, and sound like — and how we might begin to imagine them differently. What kinds of stories, methods, and practices can help us move beyond the assumption that humans stand apart from the rest of the world?
The symposium is organized and hosted by Imagining More-than-Human Communities, one of CUCo’s Unusual Collaborations.