ABSTRACT
Roberto Marchesini is the author of a large number of books in Italian on cognitive ethology, human–animal relations from the animal industries to urban cohabitation, nature in pedagogy and subject formation, animal rights, zoo anthropology, biotechnology and posthumanism. He is director of the School of Human–Animal Interactions (SIUA) and the Center for Posthuman Philosophy in Bologna, and teaches in a number of departments at universities across Italy. Five images from Mark Roth's Grazer's Gaze: The Grass Paintings series are included here alongside Marchesini's description of the grazer's "paintbrush stroke like" perspective on the landscape. These paintings are an ethological aesthetic exercise in imagining the grazing animal's gaze upon the world around it – which has been a shared and abiding concern of Marchesini's. Roth fostered the "Chiacchierate Newyorkesi" between Marchesini, Eleonora Adorni, Boria Sax, and Bussolini under the auspices of the "Adjacent to Life" Gallery and Ninth Street Espresso.
