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Cut Me Up Issue 8: guided by instinct

3/1/2022

 
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Cut Me Up Issue 8: Guided by Instinct, curated by Naomi White, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore humans’ complex relationships with animals, and the implications these relationships have on our lives and planet.

In our relationship with animals, there are many contradictions. As John Berger declares in Why Look At Animals, “Animals first entered the imagination as messengers and promises. For example, the domestication of cattle did not begin as a simple prospect of milk and meat. Cattle had magical functions, sometimes oracular, sometimes sacrificial.” We mythologize and revere animals, yet sacrifice, tame, kill and consume them. What does that say about us as a species?

The artists in this issue investigate the dualistic meanings which animals embody and the contradictions in ourselves that this relationship illuminates. Exploring our paradoxical desires to nurture, love, dominate and consume animals, the artists’ responses range from tenderness to concern, from joy to enchantment.

Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks, in response to curatorial calls addressing contemporary issues. The newly created responses
form the content of the next issue.

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  • Work
    • 2022 >
      • a study in psycho-cybernetics
      • uma nova poesia visual
      • AMETHYST DECEIVER
      • Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds
    • 2021 >
      • Home
      • Terra Incognita
      • tales of turbulence and tulips
      • Circle series
    • 2020 >
      • Found Landscapes
      • The Garden
    • 2019 >
      • Taxis Derma
      • Menagerie
      • QUAL Paisagem
      • Winter Sunrise
      • Sublime
      • The Centre Cannot Hold
      • The Centre Cannot Hold II
    • 2018 >
      • Caught up in the field
      • Disconnected Event
      • Scrunched up paper
      • FLYGA FLADDRA
      • Consequential
    • 2017 >
      • Shop Magazine
      • [framing illusive]
      • ROCKS
      • Bag Forest
    • > 2016 >
      • what might have been simply displaced
      • CHAOS &INFUSION
      • (un)form
      • Fragments
      • Made in China
    • Drawing >
      • for the time being
      • Still, time
      • BODY & PLACE
      • Expanded Landscape
      • Islands
      • Abstract Markings
    • Other >
      • (E)arthly Delights
  • Info
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