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

我的研究试图在基于步行的艺术实践中找到新的、扩展的见解，通过将与狗散步作为一种审美体验来研究，这导致了新的协作创作行为，通过将步行作为艺术的实践来探索，研究人/动物的亲近性、现象学和伦理学。在他们的研究(Just)a Walk With the Dog，Fletcher和Platt(2018)中，他们将卑微的遛狗假设为“……一个有意识地调解动物和人类之间的权力关系的重要舞台”，呼吁进行进一步的研究。我的研究发现了艺术研究和艺术史上的一个重大差距，试图将“对讲机”作为一种艺术实践来审问。在我的硕士论文《深度犬类地形学》的基础上，我将探索缠绕在一起的人类犬类心理地理学，我将研究行走的行为如何与犬类合作，通过运动中的两个身体的纠缠感官装置产生新的方式来适应环境。这一练习将探索空间、时间和物理与地点和空间的关系，它认为动物不像传统上被视为物体、符号或材料，而是合作者和共同作者。行走是我艺术实践的一个关键组成部分，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，利用深度倾听，将城市景观的集体导航作为集体表演，并设计并提供了一个为期10周的课程，探索与景观的感官接触，作为制造、存在和成为的治疗过程(作为Attenborough Art De-Stress Fest(2018)的一部分)。诺丁汉特伦特大学的“空间实践”和“仍未解决的”研究小组为进一步询问这一实践提供了关键机会。我打算与南大动物、农村和环境科学学院的同伴动物研究小组密切合作，以更好地理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、哲学和生态哲学的交叉点上，涉及到更广泛的问题，即人类对自然的统治，作为当代艺术中的关键辩论，以及后人类、女权主义和同性恋话语。我研究的目的是询问人类与动物亲缘关系的美学可能性，制定思辨策略和伦理框架，重新审视我们与动物之间的关系，通过行走的感觉纠葛，更好地理解我们动物的自我。在生态学辩论的关键时刻，我的研究借鉴了三个关键概念：唐娜·哈拉韦在《同伴物种》(2007)中讨论的死后物种间亲缘关系概念，Deleuze和Guattari在《1000高原》(1988)中提出的成为动物的概念或过程，以及Erin Manning的关系景观概念(2009)，该概念提出了将运动作为一种审美行为的哲学。我将通过以实践为基础的方法来探索人类与犬类的亲缘关系，这种方法是利用动物的野生本能来探索风景，通过表演步行，在非常“人类”的文化行为中制作。在这里，当狗的狂野本能和人类同伴的恐惧变得纠缠在一起时，代理被谈判，暂停了家庭生活，与野生环境建立了联系。我将询问在这个“悬浮空间”中发生了什么，以及与成为动物的概念有关的展开的、经常是意想不到的行走。这一方法将通过采访艺术家关于犬类亲属关系在增强他们的审美敏感度方面的作用而得到加强。步行将被记录下来，作为一种持续的基于实践的方法，使用GPS跟踪、声音、视频和演播室实践，并将利用额外的数据层，通过记录人类犬类对展开的风景的共同探索的生物识别反应。

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.