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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
- Solo Exhibition, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
- Time: 2021
“You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Fate” in The Conduct of Life, 1860
Slaughterhouses, breeding and fattening facilities are located away from the big cities and far from beautiful old village centres; however, trucks are on the road every day – no one can avoid the sight of them. The animal industry moves, fixates, mobilises and immobilises non-human animals in various ways to transform living beings into de-individualised commodities. The animals, however, turn against the system, act in resistant and transgressive ways. However, they are not only mobilised for the purpose of their commodification, but also by humans who want to put an end to animal farming and offer refuge to those who escape this system.
The multi-part project discusses the forms of (im)mobility emerging in these contexts, their representations and meanings and revisits missing slaughterhouse geographies (Philo / MacLachlan).