Co-Creating with Non-Humans

Co-creating with non-humans is an expert-led mediated tour on-site at the Biennale, focusing on the artworks interacting with the diverse more-than-humans worlds. Throughout the tour, the visitors, accompanied by the art mediator, will delve into the works by Ursula Biemann, The Migrant Ecologies project, TAYYŪN research studio, Liang Shaoji, and Tomas Saraceno, as well as other presented narratives shedding light on cross-species entanglements. Conceived as a cultural mediation, the tour aims to create an open space for the public to share knowledge and perceptions and prompt collective envisioning triggered by artistic interventions.

The workshop is conducted by a co-collaborator for the Other Minds program and emerging curator Daria Ozerskaya. 

AS PART OF OTHER MINDS

OTHER MINDS is a cross-disciplinary program centered around the ways of thinking and seeing in more-than-human ways. It has been created in response to the curatorial vision of Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024, After Rain, which embodies revitalization and renewal. It situates itself within a wider narrative of the co-existence of humans and non-humans.

Neuroscience has proved that the human brain cannot grasp the world as it is. If the objective world exists, how can we even come close to discovering it? 

The scientific and culturological tools developed to date allow for an experience of the “other”, or alternative ways of perceiving the world. With OTHER MINDS, we have assembled an array of scientists, thinkers, and artists to elaborate on plant-animal-microorganism-human relations through the new findings in neurosciences, biology, and anthropology, as well as through the metaphorical findings of the artworks presented at the Biennale. 

We will look closer at how non-human beings interact with reality, communicate, and create fascinating entanglements through their relationship with others, including humans. By receiving theoretical and practical insights from the program’s contributors, we might probably be able to see the world around us a bit closer to what it is — a world where all life is thoughtful life. 

The program was created in collaboration with Anna Kirikova and Daria Ozerskaya.