What is the importance of creating imaginaries from a nonhuman point of view? How can we represent and reimagine the invasive species paradigm to propose new iconographies of multispecies cohabitacion and cooperation? Can we fabulate to propose new futures of survival and empathy?  

A Study of Beaverness is a research-based project and narrative experiment that connects different stories of human and beaver entanglements across hemispheres: the presence of the beaver in United States and the story of the beavers of Tierra del Fuego as an invasive species.

Through this project, these beaver stories become a critical intersection to analyze political, ethical and affective relationships that reveal binary and colonial visions of nature. Thus, the work pays attention to the role of language and representation in reconfiguring and reimagining the invasive species paradigm and the place of nonhuman animals as historical subjects. Also, these stories become a territory to experiment with the representational methodologies bringing forth the presence of the animal not from a symbolic standpoint, but from its agency and material action on the world; a fiction that from a non-human perspective reveals complex forms of resistance, destruction, life and naturalization-acculturation. A Study of Beaverness  proposes a playground for speculation and for new iconographies of multispecies cohabitation and empathy across hemispheres and timelines.  

The project emphasizes multidisciplinary alliances and investigative processes that engage with multiples, writing,  video, animation, and experimental typography to propose alternative animal-centric scenarios as catalysts for other ways of thinking and ways of being on this world.