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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Published in:Human Geography
Main Author: Koski, Kaisu
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Sage 2024
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Online Access:https://shura.shu.ac.uk/33463/1/koski-2024-picnic-methodology-rethinking-multispecies-relationships-through-alfresco-meals.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786241240397
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spelling ftsheffhu:oai:shura.shu.ac.uk:33463 2024-04-14T08:07:32+00:00 Picnic methodology: rethinking multispecies relationships through alfresco meals. Koski, Kaisu 2024-03-22 application/pdf https://shura.shu.ac.uk/33463/1/koski-2024-picnic-methodology-rethinking-multispecies-relationships-through-alfresco-meals.pdf https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786241240397 en eng Sage http://shura.shu.ac.uk/33463/ https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19427786241240397 10.1177/19427786241240397 https://shura.shu.ac.uk/33463/1/koski-2024-picnic-methodology-rethinking-multispecies-relationships-through-alfresco-meals.pdf KOSKI, Kaisu (2024). Picnic methodology: rethinking multispecies relationships through alfresco meals. Human Geography: a new radical journal. doi:10.1177/19427786241240397 cc_by_nc Article PeerReviewed 2024 ftsheffhu https://doi.org/10.1177/19427786241240397 2024-03-27T15:07:53Z 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 SHURA (Sheffield Hallam University Research Archive) Arctic Human Geography
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