Who's Walking Who? Companion Species and the Unfolding Landscape in Walking Based Art Practice

我的研究旨在寻找新的，扩大的见解，以步行为基础的艺术实践，通过检查与狗一起散步作为一种审美体验，这导致了新的合作创造性行为，通过步行作为艺术的实践探索，检查人类/动物的接近性，现象学和伦理学。在他们的研究（只是）与狗一起散步，弗莱彻和普拉特（2018），将谦卑的狗散步视为“......一个重要的竞技场，动物和人类之间的权力关系是有意识的调解“，需要进一步的研究。在艺术研究和艺术史上的一个重大差距，我的研究旨在询问“散步”作为一种艺术实践。扩展我的硕士论文深犬地形，探索纠缠人类犬心理地理学，我将研究如何行走的行为，与犬合作，通过运动中的两个身体纠缠的感觉器官，产生新的方式“调谐”到环境中。这种做法将探索空间，时间和物理关系的地方和空间，认为动物不作为传统上被视为对象，符号或材料，但作为合作者和共同作者。行走是我艺术实践的一个重要组成部分，经常导致沉浸式装置的呈现，探索运动和现象学。我最近的研究包括声波漫步，利用深度聆听，城市景观的群体导航作为集体表演，以及为期10周的课程的设计和交付，探索感官参与景观作为一个治疗过程，用于制作，存在和成为，（作为Attenborough Arts De-Stress Fest的一部分交付（2018））。诺丁汉特伦特大学的“空间实践”和“仍然悬而未决”的研究小组提供了进一步询问这种做法的关键机会。我打算与南大动物、农村与环境科学学院的伴侣动物研究小组密切合作，以更好地了解人类犬类亲属关系和行为的概念。我的研究位于美术实践，心理地理学，哲学和生态学的交叉点，并位于anthoprecene，人类对自然的统治的更广泛的关注范围内，作为当代艺术和后人类，女权主义和酷儿话语的关键辩论。我的研究的目的是询问人类动物亲属关系的美学可能性，开发投机策略和伦理框架，重新审视我们与我们的动物其他人的关系，作为更好地理解我们的动物自我的一种方式，通过行走的感官纠缠。在生态辩论的关键时刻，我的研究借鉴了三个关键概念; Donna Harraway的后人类物种间亲属关系概念，如《伴侣物种》（2007）中所讨论的，德勒兹和瓜塔里的概念或成为动物的过程，如《1000高原》（1988）中所假设的，以及Erin Manning的景观概念，（2009）提出了运动作为美学行为的哲学。我将探索人类的狗亲属关系，通过实践为基础的方法，从事动物的野生本能，以探索景观，在非常'人'的文化行为，使通过性能的步行。在这里，代理谈判的野生本能的狗和恐惧的人类同伴成为纠缠，暂停“非自愿性”和连接与野生。我将询问在这个“悬浮的空间”中发生了什么，以及与成为动物的概念有关的展开的，往往是意想不到的行走。这种方法将通过采访艺术家关于犬的亲缘关系在提高他们的审美能力的作用得到加强。行走将被记录和记录，作为一种持续的基于实践的方法，使用GPS跟踪，声音，视频和工作室实践，并将利用额外的数据层，通过记录对人类犬共同探索正在展开的景观的生物识别反应。

My research seeks to find new, expanded insights in to walking based artistic practice, by examining walking with dogs as an aesthetic experience, which leads to new collaborative creative acts, explored through the praxis of walking as art, examining human/animal proximity, phenomenology and ethics. In their study (just) a Walk With The Dog, Fletcher and Platt (2018), posit the humble dog walk as '...a significant arena where relations of power between animal and human are consciously mediated', calling for further research. Identifying a significant gap in art research and art history, my research seeks to interrogate the 'walkies' as an artistic practice. Expanding on my MA thesis Deep Canine Topography, which explored entangled human caninePsychogeography, I will investigate how the act of walking, in collaboration with the canine, generates new ways of being 'attuned' to the environment, through the entangled sensory apparatus of two bodies in motion. This practice will explore spacial, temporal and physical relationships to place and space, which considers the animal not as traditionally seen as object, symbol or material, but as collaborator and co-author. Walking is a key component of my artistic practice often resulting in the presentation of immersive installations exploring movement and phenomenology. My recent research includes sonic walks, utilizing deep listening, group navigations of urban landscape as a collective performance and the design and delivery of a 10-week course exploring sensory engagement with landscape as a therapeutic process for making, being and becoming, (delivered as part of Attenborough Arts De-Stress Fest (2018)). Nottingham Trent University's, 'Spacial Practices' and 'Still Unresolved' research groups offer key opportunities for interrogating this practice further. I intend to work closely with the Companion Animals Research Group within NTU's School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences to better understand concepts of human canine kinship and behaviour. My research sits at the intersection of Fine Art Practice, Psychogeography, Philosophy and Ecosophy and is located within wider concerns of the anthoprecene, human domination over nature, as a key debate in contemporary art and post human, feminist and queer discourse. The aim of my research is to interrogate the aesthetic possibilities of human animal kinship, develop speculative strategies and ethical frameworks for re-examining our relationship with our animal other as a way of better understanding our animal selves, through the sensory entanglement of the walk. At a critical time of ecological debate, my research draws on three key concepts; Donna Harraway's posthuman interspecies concept of kinship, as discussed in Companion Species (2007), Deleuze and Guattari's concept or process of becoming animal as posited in 1000 Plateaus (1988), and Erin Manning's concept of Relationscapes, (2009) which proposes a philosophy of movement as an aesthetic act. I will explore human canine kinship through the practice-based method of engaging the animal's wild instincts to explore landscape, in the very 'human' cultural act of making, through the performance ofthe walk. Here, agency is negotiated as the wild instincts of the canine and the trepidation of the human companion become entangled, suspending 'domesticity' and connecting with the wild. I will interrogate what happens in this 'suspended space', and the unfolding, often unexpected walk in relation to the concept of becoming animal. This methodology will be augmented by interviews with artists regarding the role of canine kinship in enhancing their aesthetic sensibilities. Walks will be recorded and documented, as an ongoing practice-based methodology, using GPS tracking, sound, video, and studio practice and will utilise additional layers of data, by recording biometric responses to human canine co-explorations of unfolding landscape.