Artist Talk — Colleen Plumb

Episode Summary

Multi-media artist Colleen Plumb activates empathy through a global amplification of our contradictory relationship with nonhuman animals. Thirty Times A Minute is a striking compilation of her public art, accompanied by nine mind-blowing essays on our normalization of violent structures of power.


In this conversation, Colleen discusses, among other things:

  • Awakening to invisible justice

  • Bodily autonomy

  • Animal spectatorship

  • A practice of attention

  • Puncturing social individuality

  • Sound is time made flesh

  • Sustaining projects is a puzzle

  • Distilling process

  • Good obsessions

  • Book as archive

  • Imagining a kind future

Artist Resources/Inspiration

Projects

Animals Are Outside Today (Radius, 2012)

Thirty Times a Minute 

Invisible Visible

Surveilling Snow Lily

PAWS 2018 International Captive Wildlife Conference

NonHuman Rights Project

Creative Collaborators

Steven Wise

Catherine Doyle, M.S. 

Marc Bekoff, PhD 

Joyce Poole 

Les O'Brien PhD 

Linda Hogan

Julia Cooke 

Mandy-Suzanne Wong 

Dr. Hope Ferdowsian 

 

Media

In the Presence of Elephants and Whales

Psychology Today Interview 

Conversation with Nonhuman Rights Project

Unlocking the Cage

 

Groups

Roots and Shoots

Institute for Humane Education

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