Ministry of Multispecies Communications
Rachel Clarke
Abstract
The proposed artwork includes a participatory performative masked walk and a photographic visual essay to explore imaginative reflection and embodied play on data, communication technologies and future urban multispecies relations. These different presentation formats act as socio-material comparisons between different creative acts of more- than-human experimentation. Led by a fictional agency, the Ministry of Multispecies Communications, groups are recruited as trainees to interrogate urban spaces conducive for the well-being of different species. The visual essay and performative walk will draw together insights on situated anticipatory narratives, personalization through making and brand identity to support articulation of both meaningful and conflictual dialogue that draws attention to the sometimes uncomfortable interdependencies of being with each other in more-than-human urban worlds.