ABSTRACT

This chapter examines works by Kate Clark and Patricia Piccinini which indicate that subjects are fully immersed in more/than/human relations that need to be continuously reactivated by the disposal of anthropocentric framing. The projects reveal that bodies are reconfigured by the artists, and by the intensity of materials and forms, allowing them to not only have an encounter with otherness/the nonhuman animal but predominantly to trigger a material becoming out of and with the more/than/human world. In this sense, the works of both artists show that both human and nonhuman animal bodies are raw materials that are not separate from one another but that are always interconnected with the world and its processes, which entails new models of ethics and politics that go beyond the conventional domains of anthropocentrism.