Nonhuman Animal Agency: Human and Free-Roaming Cats’ Coexistence in Spinut Neighbourhood in Split, through an Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice
Nonhuman Animal Agency: Human and Free-Roaming Cats’ Coexistence in Spinut Neighbourhood in Split, through an Interdisciplinary Artistic Practice

Summary/Abstract: This artistic research was a one-year Master Performing Public Space program atFontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg, Netherlands. Based on concepts of coexistence between nonhumans and humans, it creates new narrativeswith the models of utopia, symbiocene, empathy. The author, while observinga community of free-roaming cats, co-created a series of interspecies communication and utopian experiments with humans and cats. The work is inspiredby the author’s close intertwining with nonhumans and continues her artisticpractice based in anthrozoology. It exemplifies artistic co-creation with nonhumans, more-than-human public space geography and the potential of artisticresearch as a scientific discipline.

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