by Kaisu Koski and Nick Dunn
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This collaboration addresses our relationships with nonhuman life after dark. Specifically, we seek to embrace one of the most misunderstood nocturnal creatures, the rat. Of particular concern for us is how quickly they are being impacted by the climate crisis. This series of work develops speculative-performative interventions for and with real and imaginary rats, drawing from science and myth, such as the Medieval legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The legend is considered a multi-layered and early version of nonhuman displacement engineered by humans, and stigmatizing another species. These site-specific interventions, accompanied by science-fiction pipe songs and poems, integrate climate science evidence from the rats’ perspective as predictions of their past, present, and future trouble. |
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