Ongoing research / Proyecto en desarrollo: A Study of Beaverness or How (not) to be a World-Destroyer


How (not) to be a World Destroyer. Two-channel video. 8min37sec. 2020. Selected frames.
A Study of Beaverness is an ongoing visual
and text-based research project about the role of narrative structures and
visual representation about the concept of Invasive species. This project is
based on a particular case of twenty American beavers (Castor Canadensis) that
were purchased by the Argentinian government and brought to Tierra del Fuego,
South America in 1946. Once released to the wild, the beavers became one of the
main threats to the biodiversity and hydrological cycles of the region. This
project seeks to be a critical exploration of the binary and colonial logics of
the term Invasive but also to pose the broader question on how
representation mediate and define our relationship and understanding of nature
and nonhuman beings. Using diverse visual languages such as video, sound,
installation and multiples the project will focus on finding
speculative counter-anthropocentric strategies of representation as lines of escape
to the logics of consumption and intensified instrumentalisation of nonhuman
entities. Ultimately, A Study of Beaverness also addresses the ethical
and political implications of visual languages and narrative frameworks
regarding how we render nature and frame ecological disasters.



















