The last part of 2025 I have been lucky to have to residencies allowing me to work on creating installations that demonstrate German Biologist Jakob Johann von Uexküll's concept of Umwelt, from early last century. This is the idea that animals (including humans) all have their own particular 'sense worlds' and navigate their world using these senses.
My goal is to prototype small-scale sensory experiments that invite people to ‘sense like another species’, challenging assumptions about human exceptionalism and fostering empathy toward other living beings. My research is currently all about animal senses, cognition and behaviour, partly to answer Nagel’s question of ‘what it feels like to be a bat’.
I have been fortunate to have been offered a Scene Shift residency, a partnership between Sydney's Brand X and Narrandera's CAD Factory. This allowed me two weeks in Sydney in November where I started conversations with academics working in the field of animal cognition and senses. This will be followed with a further two weeks in Sydney in June. And my time in Sydney was followed by a week in Newcastle at the Lighthouse, on a Critical and Creative Exchange, where I was able to further work on conceptualising my ideas. Next week I leave for a residency at Studio 88 in Doi Saket in Thailand in February to continue this work.
My goal is to prototype small-scale sensory experiments that invite people to ‘sense like another species’, challenging assumptions about human exceptionalism and fostering empathy toward other living beings. My research is currently all about animal senses, cognition and behaviour, partly to answer Nagel’s question of ‘what it feels like to be a bat’.
I have been fortunate to have been offered a Scene Shift residency, a partnership between Sydney's Brand X and Narrandera's CAD Factory. This allowed me two weeks in Sydney in November where I started conversations with academics working in the field of animal cognition and senses. This will be followed with a further two weeks in Sydney in June. And my time in Sydney was followed by a week in Newcastle at the Lighthouse, on a Critical and Creative Exchange, where I was able to further work on conceptualising my ideas. Next week I leave for a residency at Studio 88 in Doi Saket in Thailand in February to continue this work.
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