Gareth: From what you’ve found in these precedents, what would a “best practices” document start looking like? Are there things that are definite goals? Things to avoid? Can this research turn into parameters for practice?
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In terms of creating a "best practices" document, (other than the fact that of course, there are some precedents more successful at "making with" than others, and negative disruption to the environment should be avoided), in-depth research of how other artists have done their research, as well as their creative process could be insightful for artists approaching the rouge, it could also be helpful to pull examples of which forms of mediums, or materials nurture, vs. subvert what the non humans use in their creative processes, e.g building habitats.
thinking about how subjectivity transforms, when a work of art is made for the non human rather than the human, what is the social transfiguration that takes place when the work becomes less about communication and connection between humans, and more about the complex relationship humans have attempting to find "common ground" or understanding with the non human. Something quite difficult despite our thousands of similarities.