Rural performative; Interactions with Equines and other more than humans.

 ‘Rural performative; Interactions with Equines and other more than humans’ is a research group headed by Sarah Le Quang Sang (SLQS) a Franco-Vietnamese artist living in East London. Her work is provocative: it questions the politics of space and who is excluded from it. She reclaims space by immersing herself and others in the public realm. SLQS makes and holds rural space as a woman, a person of mixed heritage, a foreigner, a mother, an artist and an equestrian. She works to decolonise spatial orders from imperialist, sexist and racist structures.

For this group Sarah invites other artists, writers and performers to join her for regular discussions about ‘other’ bodies in the British Landscape, relationships with animals, particularly horses and performative investigations of ‘more than human relations’ which may include interests in proximity, animal perspectives and interspecies hybritities. She takes the work of Donna Haraway as starting point - the embracing, adapting and performing with technology as a way to enable closeness and interspecies affinities,’embracing the skilful task of reconstructing the boundaries of daily life, in partial connection with others, in communication with all of our parts” (Haraway 1991, p.181)

The group has emerged from ‘Find.ers.Keep.ers’Sarah’s long term project which sheds light on the threat of bridleways becoming extinguished in the UK.

‘Through a series of performative acts, she mindfully rides, walks, runs and maps these unrecorded lanes with her equine and creative partner Spirit of Saigon. This work questions ideas around rights to roam, land rights and diversity in the equestrian world. As a Franco-Vietnamese artist and rider living in East London, she immerses herself in the British countryside, changing the colour of its landscape and challenging the representation of horse riders in the UK’.

To Join the group please contact Gudrun@artsterritoryexchange.com or sarah.lequangsang@gmail.com

Refs

Haraway, Donna. 1991. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century.” Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature. New York: Routledge, pp. 149-181.

Find.ers.Keep.ers https://www.workbyslqs.com/work/finderskeepers