Animal liberation and internal speciesism would be the opposite of infighting.
The animal liberationist, art historian, and publisher Dr. Jessica Ullrich has, from the very beginning, stood out for her enthusiasm for taxidermic exhibits.
Is Ullrich an animal liberationist who supports the bodily objectification of animals for artistic purposes? Yes – and she is firmly embedded within the animal liberation scene in the DACH region.
Ullrich:
“Taxidermic hybrids show at the same time the trauma and the allure of bodily deformations. They transform violence, fear and insecurity into something new. The animals that are prepared to be chimaeras not only exhibit the irreparable battery of nature by human intervention, but they also represent the possibility to think out a new, and fantasy-filled way of approaching the natural world.”
Ullrich, Jessica (2008): „The Taxidermy Hybrid“. In: ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Nr. 7 (Autumn), S. 18–21.
http://johnisaacs.net/press_files/ANTENNAE_7_2008.pdf
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It is hardly surprising, yet regrettable, and it must be named for what it actually is:
So-called interspecies art is often a way of disseminating speciesist art and the underlying worlds of thought behind it.
Ullrich ist by the way part of Kim Stallwoods circles, From her activities: https://www.facebook.com/jesmarullrich/posts/pfbid0rsVeS5GR2aYBWGHKb9n1SRkbrimKjtgSKcS4cn6jJzqtp5SxoDjZHcgsb66onphvl
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Chris Moser and a woman from the BUND Hochtaunus like this:
The BUND praises the usability of nonhuman animals for food by the way > Who feels like throwing up? “German” “nature conservation” >
Organizations we do not appreciate. But people prefer to buddy up instead > https://www.bund-naturschutz.de/landwirtschaft/artgerechte-tierhaltung [19.02.26]
If Donald Watson had taken that approach back then, we would all probably still be hardly any further along. #speciesism #paternalistic
In this entire context we have commented trying to be more constructive about things:
Art and Speciesism: Aesthetics and objectifying frameworks > https://tierrechtsethik.de/art-and-speciesism-aesthetics-and-objectifying-frameworks/
Tierbefreiung und innerer Speziesismus wäre so das Gegenteil von Infighting.
Die Tierbefreierin-Kunstgeschichtlerin-Verlegerin Dr. Jessica Ullrich fällt ja schon seit Anbeginn mit ihrer Begeisterung für taxidermische Exponate auf. Ist Ullrich eine Tierbefreierin, die für die körperliche Objektifizierung von Tieren für Kunstzwecke ist. Ja, und sie ist fest eingebettet in der Tierbefreierszene im DACH.
Ullrich:
“Taxidermic hybrids show at the same time the trauma and the allure of bodily deformations. They transform violence, fear and insecurity into something new. The animals that are prepared to be chimaeras not only exhibit the irreparable battery of nature by human intervention, but they also represent the possibility to think out a new, and fantasy-filled way of approaching the natural world.”
Ullrich, Jessica (2008): „The Taxidermy Hybrid“. In: ANTENNAE: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Nr. 7 (Autumn), S. 18–21.
http://johnisaacs.net/press_files/ANTENNAE_7_2008.pdf
Es wundert wenig, ist aber bedauerlich: Sogenannte Interspezieskunst ist oft ein Weg speziesistische Kunst und die dahinter liegenden Gedankenwelten zu verbreiten, eine Unterminierung der Idee selbst, die durch Verständnisse entsteht.
Eine Kritik zu der Sache befindet sich hier > Kunst und Speziesismus: Ästhetik und objektifizierende Rahmen. „Progressive“ Kunst, die speziesistische Hierarchien reproduziert > https://tierrechtsethik.de/kunst-und-speziesismus-aesthetik-und-objektifizierende-rahmen/