Film Screening: Lily Does Derrida & Animal Attraction

Enjoy a free Saturday matinee with a double feature screening of video work by American artist Kathy High, presented in conjunction with 'Strange Kinship' at Hervey Bay Regional Gallery.

Hervey Bay Regional Gallery welcomes you to enjoy two thought provoking videos by artist Kathy High as a double feature Saturday matinee event.

Lily Does Derrida: A Dog’s Video Essay
2010-12 (video, 29:30 min.)
A video essay made in collaboration with Lily Dog about companion animal relations, and interspecies communication.

How do we think about animals? Or rather – how do our animal companions think? How can we imagine the lives of our (non-human) animal friends? In this video essay, Lily Dog looks at Derrida’s writings and makes a case about how human and non-human understand each other – or not – based on her own life and adventures. Jacques Derrida was interested in animal consciousness and animal subjectivity, and he wrote about them both in The Animal That Therefore I Am – a text that Lily Dog quotes and speaks to in the video.

Animal Attraction
2000 (video, 59 mins.)
A documentary on telepathic animal communication.

Animal Attraction examines the relationship between people and animals, questioning the way we project ourselves onto our pets, imbuing their gestures with human qualities and attributes. Looking at the paranormal phenomenon of telepathic communication, this video investigates the social group of New Agers who are involved in working with animals. Following an interspecies telepathic communicator, Dawn Hayman from Spring Farm CARES, an animal sanctuary in upstate New York, the filmmaker uses herself as a protagonist to look at this complex examination of our relationship to “nature,” and develops a particular empathy for the animals in the end.

Kathy High is an interdisciplinary artist working with technology, art and biology. She collaborates with scientists and artists, and considers living systems, empathy, animal sentience, and the social, political and ethical dilemmas of biotechnology and surrounding industries. She has received awards including the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, and National Endowment for Arts.

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