Squeaky Wheel presents an exhibition and public programs thinking through and on non-human animals. The artists – working in animation, essay films, speculative narratives, installation work, among other forms – address domestication, colonialism, extinction, and conservation, and the toll humans extract from our co-inhabitants on earth. The exhibition features work by Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Annika Eriksson, Cameron A. Granger, Christina Corfield, Deniz Tortum & Sister Sylvester, G. Anthony Svatek, Miranda Javid, and Noor Abuarafeh, with films by Serge Avédikian, Chris Marker, and Wiame Haddad in the screening program.

The title of the exhibition – with us at the center of our world – is from John Berger’s quintessential essay “Why Look at Animals?”, describing the place and role humans placed animals: how we may have seen and defined ourselves, our world through and with them. The works take on various perspectives, looking with and at animals, and how the forces of capitalism, control, colonialism, and war are now intertwined in our relationships with them. Thinking through these forces, the collected works in the exhibition ask: what is the world that humans and animals are at the center of, and are other worlds possible?

Public programs and extended hours

Friday, June 12, 6–8 pm
Exhibition opening, with brief remarks by Curator Ekrem Serdar at 7 pm.

Wednesday, June 24, 7 pm
Artist talk: Cameron A. Granger and Christina Corfield (click here for more information)

Wednesday, August 5, 7 pm
Screening: Chris Marker’s The Case of the Grinning Cat, with short films by Serge Avédikian and Wiame Haddad (click here for more information)

Friday, September 11, 6–8 pm
Exhibition closing with extended hours.