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Abstract
I am an artist who runs a sanctuary for dogs. I did not start the sanctuary as a studio project, but, as it turns out, it is very much an extension of my studio work. The sanctuary focuses on acknowledging canine subjectivity and agency in the context of colonialist, Western, modernist human fictions, a context explored throughout my work, in general. Our sanctuary is a site of ongoing investigation: we seek to map the territory between ‘free’ and ‘pet’. This paper examines the thinking behind and the practical life of my dog sanctuary: exigencies of doghuman collaboration and what it means for a dog to be free – whether it’s possible for the domestic dog to live among humans without being a pet.
Recommended Citation
Marquez, René J., Free to Be Dog Haven: Dogs Who May Never Be Pets?, Animal Studies Journal, 9(1), 2020, 93-113.Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/asj/vol9/iss1/4
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