Humans were never meant to treat non-human animals as puppets, yet it has become clear that that is the role we have adopted in the animal kingdom. This exhibit contains a 2-part presentation of in depth analysis regarding the way humans control non-human animals, with a focus on how we remove them from the framework of society and attach completely different rules to their existence. A creative aspect of analysis focuses on Chen Qiufan's "Balin," followed by an analytical piece on puppetry and zoopoetics in Yasunari Kawabata's "Of Birds and Beasts."
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Kai Preminger '26