Pascal Marcel Dreier listens to and narrates more-than-human stories. They are assistant professor of Multispecies Storytelling at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. 






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↘︎ Select Teaching 

● Multispecies Storytelling, Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM) ● Installation Art, KHM ● Multispecies Studio, KHM ● Interspecies Worldmaking, Köln International School of Design (KISD) ● Artistic Design, University of Siegen ● Digging—Methods Lab, KISD ●  History and Theory of Design, HMKW 


↘︎ Select Exhibitions

2023 ‘DE PROFUNDIS’, Städtische Galerie Sindelfingen, DE ● 2022 Talk to me: Other Histories of Nature, Temporary Gallery, Köln, DE ● At the Edge of Safehouse, Safehouse, London, UK● 2021 ‘Live Stock / Live Animals’, KHM Open, Cologne, DE ●2020 ‘OCTOPUS ENCOUNTERS: An Immersive Library of Octopus Aesthetics’, Glasmoog, Cologne, DE ● ‘Perron Art Price’, Stadt Galerie Frankenthal, DE ● 2019 ‘Goodbye Cruel World, it’s Over’, Weltkunstzimmer Düsseldorf, DE ● ‘Animal Ludens’, Next-Level Festival for Games, Zollverein Essen, DE ● ‘Practices of Approximation’, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, DE ● ‘RUNDGANG’, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, DE ● ‘we, animals:  multispecies narrations’, MEINBLAU Berlin, DE


↘︎ Publications

Dreier, Pascal Marcel, and Claudia Paganini. Eco Art als Ego Art? [Spiritualität zwischen Egoismus und Engagement], in: Datterl, Monika / Guggenberger, Wilhelm / Paganini, Claudia (eds.): Wofür es sich zu leben lohnt. Zum Verhältnis von Ethik und Spiritualität (theologische trends 32). Innsbruck: Theologische Fakultät 2022, S. 113-129.
Dreier, Pascal Marcel. Closure of Openings, in: Jessica Ullrich, Frederike Middelhoff (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und Migration [Animal Studies: Animals and Migration] 19/2021. Berlin, Neofelis, 2021.
Dreier, Pascal Marcel, and Thomas Hawranke. Capturing the Wild: Virtuelle Pferde im Computerspiel Red Dead Redemption 2 [Capturing the Wild: Virtual Horses in the Computer Game Red Dead Redemption 2], in: Jessica Ullrich, and Stefan Rieger (eds.): Tierstudien Tiere und/als Medien [Animal Studies: Animals and/as Media] 18/2020. Berlin, Neofelis, 2020.
Blöß, Janine, Ute Hörner, and Mathias Antlfinger (eds.) Goodbye Cruel World, It’s Over. Erdlings-
geschichten. Verlag der KHM, 2020.


↘︎ Affiliations
TRACES Studio for Creative Investigation 
Minding Animals Germany
● Multispecies Studio
German Society for Media Studies
OktoLab


↘︎ Education 
     
2021–2022:
MA Art and Ecology (Distinction),
Goldsmiths, University of London

2016–2021:
MFA Media and Fine Art (Distinction),
Academy of Media Arts Cologne

2019:
ERASMUS Cross-Disciplinary Strategies,
University of Applied Arts Vienna
ArrivalSound Installation with time-based Essay
Time: 2020



Unmute
Exhibition View, “Live Stock / Live Animals”, Multispecies Studio, Academy of Media Arts Cologne.  
  
A van loaded with pigs arrives at the slaughterhouse. It waits briefly. "Arrival" features audio recordings annotated with excerpts from my field diary that I made at the gate of the Crailsheim slaughter factory, which were then assembled into an endless loop.