Picnic methodology: rethinking multispecies relationships through alfresco meals
This essay introduces a speculative “picnic methodology” emerging from site-specific performance art practice with a herd of reindeer. The practice expands from the justice-oriented picnic tradition and stages picnic as a space to envision nonhierarchical multispecies relationships. The picnic blank...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/19427786241240397 2024-04-28T08:09:41+00:00 Picnic methodology: rethinking multispecies relationships through alfresco meals Koski, Kaisu Research England 2024 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19427786241240397 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/19427786241240397 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/19427786241240397 en eng SAGE Publications https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Human Geography ISSN 1942-7786 2633-674X Philosophy Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 2024 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786241240397 2024-04-02T08:14:23Z This essay introduces a speculative “picnic methodology” emerging from site-specific performance art practice with a herd of reindeer. The practice expands from the justice-oriented picnic tradition and stages picnic as a space to envision nonhierarchical multispecies relationships. The picnic blanket is offered as a meeting place to appreciate more-than-human ways of being, thinking, and knowing, starting with our relative, the reindeer. The essay draws from the short film City Reindeer (2022), documenting the durational picnics in the wintery Arctic. The performance art practice forms here a contemplative and playful intervention to decenter the human and give the reindeer a voice, with an underlying commitment to promoting veganism. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic SAGE Publications Human Geography |
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This essay introduces a speculative “picnic methodology” emerging from site-specific performance art practice with a herd of reindeer. The practice expands from the justice-oriented picnic tradition and stages picnic as a space to envision nonhierarchical multispecies relationships. The picnic blanket is offered as a meeting place to appreciate more-than-human ways of being, thinking, and knowing, starting with our relative, the reindeer. The essay draws from the short film City Reindeer (2022), documenting the durational picnics in the wintery Arctic. The performance art practice forms here a contemplative and playful intervention to decenter the human and give the reindeer a voice, with an underlying commitment to promoting veganism. |
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