Projektnummer

0059239

Zusammenfassung

Taxidermy sits squarely between the arts and the sciences - the skillfully prepared animal bodies enhance their surroundings aesthetically, they move us towards a range of feelings, and they have set off artistic traditions of their own. Through death, we learn about life, too. Taxidermy is used to teach taxonomy and the artful tradition of the diorama is an early approach to represent ecological connectivities. As a dancer and an anthropologist, we are interested in the question of what it means to be affected through (e)motion. How can we translate the sensation of being moved by an...