About the exhibition

Going Feral examines “ferality” as a response to systems of control, productivity, and social regulation. The project looks at feral gestures as micro-acts of resistance to the romanticization of wildness for posterity: messy, embodied, and unsanctioned, within art, language, and public space.

The installation draws on key arguments from animal ethics and animal studies, condensing them into a spatial narrative centered on the feral as a category. It also takes inspiration from Feral Feminisms, a publication which takes the feral as a call to untaming, queering, and radicalizing feminist thought and practice.

Like the journal’s inter-media, cross-disciplinary approach, the artworks mobilize the feral as a metaphor, as well as a method for an unruly strategy towards unsettling normative structures and opening feminist inquiry to forms of knowledge, embodiment, and resistance that exceed containment.