How Do Nonhuman Animals Make Art? Art as a Practice of Interspecies Questioning

Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca

doi:10.18290/rkult22134.7

Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca Academy of Theatre and Dance at Amsterdam University of the Arts, Netherlands https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6276-0131

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rkult22134.7

Keywords: art, creator, recipient

Abstract

The presented statement is part of the volume it covers a variety of responses from people who interact with art in different ways. The aim is to suggest to the participant of the contemporary world a new, personal perspective to rethink what is this area of our world that we label with art; thoughts with and without theoretical suggestions - reflections by the creators and reflections by the audience, teaching humility and uniqueness, perhaps - forming a fresh perspective on art.

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