Felix Wilson

MFA Confirmation

Strange encounters: a poetics of nocturnal human-animal encounters in the city

Felix Wilson. There is no ‘outside’ of the system of life forms (brushtail possum and landfill). 2013. 1m x 75cm, Inkjet print.

Felix Wilson. Still from video; Since we cannot know in advance what the effects of the system will be, all life forms are theorizable as strange strangers. 2013. Video installation, dimensions variable.

Research Questions

1.  How can photographic imaging engage viewers in a consideration of the nocturnal city as habitat for encounters between human and nonhuman beings?

2.  How can such images be used to speculate on the capacity for shared experience and overlapping perceptions in encounters between human and nonhuman animals ?

Objectives

…to offer new perspectives and add to existing knowledge within the field by exploring the possibilities for a speculative visual poetics of encounter that is informed, but not limited, by contemporary theoretical and scientific understandings.

Encounter Night City

Jochen Lempert. Belladonna, 2013. Silver gelatin prints 24 x 17,5 cm and 29,5 x 23,5 cm, ed. 5 <http://www.projectesd.com/index.php/artists/works/lempert_jochen/>

Marcus Coates. Journey to the lower world. Still from video. <http://old.contemporaryartsociety.org/our-work-with-public-collections/acquisitions-scheme/journey-to-the-lower-world-2004-marcus-coates>

Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson. Uncertainty in the city (installation view) <http://snaebjornsdottirwilson.com/category/projects/uncertainty-in-the-city/>

A list of species

Brushtail possum Ringtail possum Tawny Frogmouth Fox Rabbit Cat Moths (various species) Nankeen night heron

Rat Blackbird

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