Colloquia

Six inset images of different people wearing wings as facial accents.

Bugs and Beasts Before the Law

Years Funded

2020 - 2022

Primary Contact(s)
Mita Mahato (Associate Curator of Youth and Public Programs, Henry Art Gallery)
Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky (Associate Professor, American Ethnic Studies)
Nina Bozicnik (Associate Curator, Henry Art Gallery)
Dan Berger (Associate Professor, Comparative Ethnic Studies UW Bothell)
Dan Paz (Lecturer, Comparative History of Ideas)
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Project Subject/Topic
Environment
Law

Online Saturday, March 06, 2021, 11:00 AM — Thursday, March 18, 2021, 8:30 PM

In Fall 2020, the Henry Art Gallery will present "Bugs and Beasts Before the Law," an essay film by the artist duo Bambitchell that explores the history and legacy of “animal trials,” in which non-human animals and inanimate objects were put on trial for various offenses. In conversation with this work, we propose an interdisciplinary colloquium that will imagine, explore, and enact possibilities for survival and liberation for those whose protections are limited or whose personhood is compromised, oppressed, or threatened within sociolegal systems.