Ocular Witness – Pig Consciousness Cat. Sprengel Museum Hannover

» Man becomes aware of himself returning the animal’ s look« , John Berger once wrote, but what do we actually learn about ourselves and our relationship to the world around us when we contemplate our relationship to pigs? Ocular witness: SCHWEINEBEWUSSTSEIN is a polyphonic, multi-perspectival research project. Sixteen artists were asked to explore individual aspects of the above question. The majority of the photographic works, videos and sculptural-installative works on display were developed especially for this project. With a poetic-artistic idiosyncrasy, the works are dedicated to aspects of the economy, everyday consumption, animal welfare, ecology, and the promises of the future in connection with the industrialization of agriculture. With works a. o. by Max Baumann, Frank Berger, Felix Bielmeier, Pierre Bismuth, Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tká cová , Anna Haifisch, Jochen Lempert, Arne Schmitt, Wenke Seemann, Maria Sewcz, Heidi Specker, Andrzej Steinbach, Maria Sturm, and Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries.

Jenny Schä fer (b. 1985) lives in Hamburg, from 2008– 2012 she studied art to become an art teacher at special needs’ schools, and from 2012– 2015 she studied fine arts and photography at HFBK Hamburg. She has shown her interest in animal and human welfare on other occasions: » World can only be saved by horses« , nygIwest, Leipzig 2019, or with » I Am A Future Animal« , Studio 45, Ku¨ nstlerhaus Wendenstrasse, Hamburg 2018. Inka Schube (b. 1961) lives in Berlin and Hannover, from 1981– 1987 she studied art history, classical archaeology and aesthetics at the Humboldt-University Berlin, since 2001 she is curator for photography and media art at Sprengel Museum Hannover. As editor of the book Umbo. Photographer (9783864422881) she has caused a stir internationally in the photography scene. Fahin Amir, he lives in Vienna, and is a writer, philosopher, university lecturer. He has collaborated on the exhibitions among others: » Lifes« , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 2022, and 2021 » Cohabitation« , Arch+, at Berlin. Among other things, he has contributed as an author to the publications » as Being and Swine: The End of Nature As We Knew It« , Toronto 2020, and he wrote for Donna Haraway’ s German version » Das Manifest fü r Gefä hrten« , Berlin 2016, an afterword. Inka Schube (b. 1961) lives in Berlin and Hannover, from 1981– 1987 she studied art history, classical archaeology and aesthetics at the Humboldt-University Berlin, since 2001 she is curator for photography and media art at Sprengel Museum Hannover. As editor of the book Umbo. Photographer (9783864422881) she has caused a stir internationally in the photography scene.

Inka Schube: Being Pig Jenny Schä fer: In the world, there are two sorts of balloons. The Up Balloon and the Down Balloon Heavy Industries: How to Slaughter a Hog Humanely Pierre Bismuth: Sausage Library – I agree the idea of cloning humans is disgusting! Fahin Amir: Exemplary wild sows