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)
PAWS 2018 International Captive Wildlife Conference
Creative Collaborators
Dr. Hope Ferdowsian
Media
In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
Conversation with Nonhuman Rights Project
Groups