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It is well known that nonhuman species perceive the world very differently than we humans do – through different sensoria, different embodiments, different ecological priorities. This understanding offers the chance to playfully imagine ‘what it is like’ to perceive the world as a nonhuman.⁠ ⁠ This collection of films is an attempt to fictionally inhabit an imagined nonhuman perspective of Olafur’s exhibition ‘Life’, held at the Fondation Beyeler in Riehen, Switzerland, in 2021. The movement of the camera is inspired by the way an amphibian may inhabit the exhibition, or how a bee may circle spaces as they navigate them. While we can never claim to truly know – let alone experience – what it is like to exist in the world as an other, we can still test the limits of our imagination through experiments and form, and in so doing perhaps even grow our capacity for interspecies compassion.⁠ ⁠ Video: 'More-than-human views of Life’, 2021 (film: Aviatics GmbH; music: Patricia Bondesson Kavana

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