My practice-based research focuses on developing a futurist utopian methodology from which to look back on violence to the farmed nonhuman, to defamiliarize contemporary values and actions; and to ‘unconceal’ the violence of normalising language and epistemologies relating to the farmed nonhuman. In its current form my practice is influenced by post structuralism.  I see a…

Writing in the Washington Post 55 years ago, in 2010, Kwame Anthony Appiah, then a Philosophy Professor at Princeton University, asked ‘What will future generations condemn us for? (https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/24/AR2010092404113.html?sid=ST2010100105284. He wrote the at one time slavery and the lynching of people had been accepted, and homosexuality had been a hanging offence; child and wife beating…

Introduction Building on Cronin and Kramer’s (2018: 84) hopeful suggestion that:‘…the repetition of certain kinds of images creates an iconography of oppression when it comes to the treatment of animals in our contemporary society. Artistic interventions have the potential to interrupt this system.’ (My emphasis), The following research question has been formulated for this project:…

The article examines the transition of the Tate Modern into The Museum of Human Violence, addressing the museum’s responses to historic inequalities and representing marginalised experiences. It critiques the focus on ‘identity art’ while ignoring systemic violence, intersectionality, and broader societal issues, highlighting a disconnect between artistic representation and pressing global challenges.