Film Screening: “Common Exchanges, When Species Meet”

This program brings together short films and social media videos that attend to inter-species encounters between humans and other-than-human life. With works by Francis Alÿs, Theo Cuthand, Joelle Mercedes, Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, and additional artists and content creators, the exchanges expressed vary from fiercely ordinary to curiously uncommon.

Organized by MFA candidate Lisa Marie Malloy and artist Liyan Zhao, this film program is guided by questions theorist Donna Harraway’s poses in her book “When Species Meet,” such as “Whom and what do I touch when I touch my dog? and “How is “becoming with” a practice of becoming worldly?” Malloy and Zhao will be in conversation with Joelle Mercedes on how attunement to inter-species exchanges can be a productive practice of “becoming worldly.”

Gallery 400 Lecture Hall.

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