An Afternoon of Fauna: From Ants to Whales
A Discussion on Rosemarie Trockel
Saturday 12 January, 2013
2 - 6pm, $10
New Museum
235 Bowery
Spiders, parrots, songbirds, chickens, lobsters, king crabs, dogs, chimps, pigs, seals, orangutans—these are only a few inhabitants of the menagerie that appears in Rosemarie Trockel’s work. For this event in association with the artist’s exhibition “A Cosmos,†Cabinet magazine invites visitors to take a trip through the animal world inspired by J.B.S. Haldane’s seminal 1920s essay “On Being the Right Size.†Making its way from smallest to largest, the program will investigate the scientific, literary, and cultural significance of animals through a series of brief presentations, films, sound recordings, readings, and more. Participants include D. Graham Burnett, Jeffrey Dolven, Jeffrey Kastner, Nina Katchadourian, Carla Nappi, Sina Najafi, and Hugh Raffles.