Mishkin Gallery curator to hold talk in Manila Who Speaks for the Oceans? proposes new and challenging ways to shift the understanding and relationships of whales with other animals. Alaina Claire Feldman, the director and curator of the university art museum Mishkin Gallery in New York, will present the significant role of visual technologies in critical animal studies in a free public lecture. Organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB), the dialogue will offer glimpses of aspects of Feldman’s work.
It touches on Staging the Ocean: The Emergence of the Aquarium in Victorian England, an investigation of the constructions and representations of nature through the apparatus of the saltwater aquarium. Who Speaks for the Oceans? proposes new and challenging ways to shift the understanding and relationships of whales with other animals. It is an exhibition composed of over 15 interdisciplinary artworks, which analyze epistemological and historical knowledge on life in the ocean.
Taxonomies of Power: Photographic Encounters at the State Silk Museum Tbilisi , co-curated with art historian and cultural practitioner Mariam Shergelashvili, features a selection of black and white photographs from the State Silk Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. It will be shown alongside the film Raised in the Dust (2022) by Georgian artist Andro Eradze, together with 47 images, which detail the lifecycle of the silk moth. Feldman, who hol.
