I am an animal. I think, I feel. I want to live – portrait as a form of activism” – lecture by Dariusz Gzyra as part of the WSPÓŁ_ISTNOŚĆ 2024 Engaged Art Festival
Unbelievably many animals need help. They lose to humans – stronger when they want to harm, and too weak when they cannot help. Perhaps we need to learn to translate the tragedy of a billion to a billion tragedies. Maybe then it will become unbearable for really many” – fragment of Dariusz Gzyra's book “Thank you for pig eyes. How we harm animals”. Portrait is an attempt to capture individuality. Animal abuse today takes an industrial form and is associated with the deindividualization of animals. It is therefore understandable that various actions on their behalf remind us of the individuality of victims and the personal dimension of tragedies. Harm is not abstract, it is always connected with someone's biography - non-human or human. During the lecture, we will look at the persuasive strategy used in the cyclical street action "I am an animal. I think, I feel. I want to live", as well as examples from the field of art that shows animals with the intention of reminding us of their subjectivity: the series of photographs "Exercises in empathy. Found photos" (2018) by Elwira Sztetner and the works of photographer Isa Leshko, which made up the album "Allowed to Grow Old: Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries" (The University of Chicago Press, 2019). DARIUSZ GZYRA – philosopher, publicist, lecturer at the Faculty of Artes Liberales of the University of Warsaw and at the SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, vegan
The project was co-financed from the budget of the Municipality of the City of Rzeszów
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