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BE-COMING COW
A field-research collaboration approaching cows as teachers for a more-than-human consciousness.
Videosculpture / performance / research
2020
Be-coming Cow trows light on what has been erased and forgotten in the process of domestication.
Be-coming Cow is a project of Jatun Riisba which emerged out of a field research undertaken in collaboration with artist Adam Engler during an art residency at the Cultural Centre Zahrada (“Garden”) in Slovakia in the end of Summer 2020. In this time, the artists spent three days with two cows - Hilda and Linda - in Zaježová-Dolinky for the sake of observing cow’s habits, behaviour and movements. By approaching domesticated cattle as potential teachers, Riisba was looking to expand human consciousness to a more-than-human domain in order to become a cow and an animal-kin.