WIDOWHOOD, INTERRUPTIVE WILDNESS AND UNRULY DOMESTICITY IN PIGEON RACING SYSTEMS

Buckeridge, Bronwen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0406-0102 (2022) WIDOWHOOD, INTERRUPTIVE WILDNESS AND UNRULY DOMESTICITY IN PIGEON RACING SYSTEMS. In: Animal Borderlands, 25 September 2020, Keeble College, Oxford University.

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Abstract / Summary

I presented WIDOWHOOD, INTERRUPTIVE WILDNESS AND UNRULY DOMESTICITY IN PIGEON RACING SYSTEMS at Animal Borderlands, the autumn meeting of BASN (British Animal Studies Nework) hosted by the Oxford AnNex team at Keeble College in 2020.

https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk//animalresearchnexus.org/index.php/blogs/animal-borderlands.html

Widowhood is the name of a performance I made in 2018 at Matt’s Gallery London and later published in book form in 2022. It is also the name of a motivational strategy used in pigeon racing to encourage the birds to fly faster during competitions.

Observations discussed in the paper are taken from the 2018 Matt’s Gallery performance, the 2022 book and related field research. They have been shaped in part by a close reading of Donna Harraway’s 2008 text When Species Meet.

In the paper I discuss

The border crossing between species during the race, where pigeons and humans form an extraordinary competing animal spanning both species.

Data production and conversation as a means of maintaining this cross-species body whilst the racing birds are absent.

The borders crossings between wild and domestic space in a race.

The shifting categorizations of the birds and the race itself at different stages of the event and during race preparation.

Finally I look at metaphorical border crossings in terms of the widowhood system. I propose that during a race the love, loss and longing experienced between pairs of birds also occurs across species, between the pigeons and the men who race them.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	https://web-archive.southampton.ac.uk//animalresearchnexus.org/index.php/blogs/animal-borderlands.html
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Pigeon Racing, The Widowhood, Animal Borderlands, BASN, AnNex, Matt’s Gallery, Conference Paper, Performance,Liveness, Archives, Compound Animal, Donna Haraway, Post Human
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design > Fine Art History, Geography & Environment Creative Art & Design
Courses by Department:	The Falmouth School of Art
Related URLs:	Author
Depositing User:	Bronwen Buckeridge
Date Deposited:	07 Mar 2024 14:51
Last Modified:	18 Nov 2024 13:21
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5428

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