Exposition

Zoological Architectures and Empty Frames (2022)

Katharina Swoboda

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In general, zoo architecture directs the attention towards the animals. The buildings create ‘frames’ around the animals, as John Berger (1980) states in his 1977 essay ‘Why Look at Animals?’. Following this premise, my work explores visual and psychological aspects of framing, relating to animal housing. Judith Butler (2009) explains how (visual) framings always create meanings and evaluations of what is enclosed within them. Therefore, the representation of animals in human culture affects how we treat animals socio-politically. Zoos generate and communicate ongoing conceptions of zoo animals. Zoo architecture, although often in the background of one’s field of vision, forms an important factor in the construction of these ideas.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsanimals, zoo, architecture, video art, framing
date26/05/2022
published26/05/2022
last modified26/05/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightKatharina Swoboda
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/823739/1621840
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.823739
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue26. 26


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