From petroglyphs to pastoralism, the interdependencies of human and more-than-human relationships have influenced art practice and production for thousands of years. Horses, bison, deer, cattle have shaped human mobility and expansion in ways that accord them an undeniable significance in the cultural imaginary, a positioning that often belies their inherent agency as sovereign beings.
Amplify’s next Alternate Currents panel discussion Co-Becoming: On Animals, Art, and Place, on Wednesday, September 28th at 7pm CST brings together artist Lee Emma Running, artist Sarah Rowe, and public radio and podcast journalist Ashley Ahearn to think through the possibilities creative practice offers to redistribute anthropomorphic hierarchies of dominance and control. They’ll explore embodied dimensions of reciprocity and co-becoming that move beyond aesthetic gesture to bridge geographic and ideological divides.
Register here. You will receive a confirmation email with a link to join the discussion on Zoom after registering. And don’t forget to visit the Alternate Currents blog page to read up on the panel topic before the discussion.
www.amplifyarts.org/alternate-currents
Alternate Currents opens space for conversation, ideation, and action around national and international discussions in the arts that have a profound impact at the local level. Alternate Currents exists both on- and off-line in the form of a dedicated online resource, conversation series, and working group.
Free and open to all. Alternate Currents programming is presented with support from the Sherwood Foundation.
About the Panelists:
Ashley Ahearn is a public radio and podcast journalist who has been covering science, the environment, natural resources and climate change for more than a decade. Her stories have been broadcast on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, BBC World Service and PRI. She co-created the podcast Terrestrial with NPR and member station KUOW in Seattle. The show explored our personal choices in the face of climate change, and has close to a million downloads. In 2018 she left KUOW and started her own podcast production company. Now she freelances for NPR and helps clients make great podcasts. One of her great passions is helping scientists better communicate their research to the broader public, so she does workshops with Compass, a nonprofit that organizes trainings at universities and research institutions around the world.
Sarah Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist based in Omaha, NE. Her work opens cross cultural dialogues by utilizing methods of painting, casting, fiber arts, performance, and Native American ceremony in unconventional ways. Rowe’s work is participatory, a call to action, and re-imagines traditional Native American symbology to fit the narrative of today’s global landscape. Rowe holds a BA in Studio Art from Webster University, studying in St. Louis, MO, and Vienna, Austria. She is of Lakota and Ponca descent.
Lee Emma Running makes sculptures and drawings using roadkill animal bones, glass, paper, fabric, fur, raw pigments, and gold. Her training as a traditional papermaker allows her to manipulate materials and process as well as maintain the discipline of a fine craft. Her sculptures, installation and performance work are deeply connected to place. Her work has been exhibited internationally, at the National Taiwan University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan, The Morris Graves Museum, Eureka, CA, The Dubuque Museum of Art, Dubuque, IA, Western Carolina University Fine Art Museum, Cullowhee, North Carolina, the Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, and The Charlotte Street Foundation, Kansas City, KS.