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These questions and more are explored in an exhibition, Animal Territories, organised as part of a continuing collaboration between Edinburgh College of Art and the Roslin Institute.
Genomes and obstacle courses
Eleven artists - Edinburgh College of Art staff and students - are showing their work, ranging from sculptures of urban foxes to photos of imaginary cellular life, at the Institute.
MFA student Keith Guy’s work explores human's proximity, in genetic terms, to the food that populates our dinner plates. Through photography he raises questions around how humans and cows share 80% of the same genomes.
MFA student Lindsay Boyd has created a mini assault course for dogs to unpick the power relationship between man and canines.
Sculptor Kenny Hunter has created an urban fox sitting on top of some disused furniture.
Eleven artists on show
The other artists exhibiting are Despina Nissiriou, Patricia Martin, Kyle Noble, Davy Forsyth, Dennis Reinmuller, Kirsty Louise Jones, Angela Roe, and Susanne Ramsenthaler.
Ethical issues concerning human/animal relationships have long been a concern of artists for whom the natural world has formed both subject matter and material over previous decades. Indeed their relevance has become even more pressing in the present moment when environmental issues are omnipresent in public discourse.
Chris Breward
Principal of Edinburgh College of Art
The exhibition is part of a series of exchanges between Edinburgh College of Art and the Roslin Institute. In December 2011 artists and scholars from earth sciences, philosophy and ethics attended Animal Integrity, a seminar at ECA to discuss the nature of human/animal relationships, from which the current exhibition grew.
Animal Territories
26 March - 22 June 2012, 9am - 5pm The Roslin Institute, Easter Bush, Midlothian, EH25 9RGLast job offers
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