{"id":6527,"date":"2017-08-18T11:26:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6527"},"modified":"2018-05-21T23:47:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T03:47:19","slug":"hermione-spriggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/hermione-spriggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermione Spriggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_23\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6527-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/HermioneSpriggs.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/HermioneSpriggs.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/HermioneSpriggs.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6531 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=300%2C226&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=300%2C226&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=768%2C578&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=1024%2C771&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=696%2C524&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=1068%2C804&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?resize=558%2C420&amp;ssl=1 558w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-19-at-10.51.47.png?w=1246&amp;ssl=1 1246w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Hermione Spriggs is a Yorkshire-born artist and researcher working between the fields of art and anthropology. Whilst often engaging in collaboration with other artists and specialists external to the art world, her own research is dedicated to articulating and propagating a practice-based field known as The Anthropology of Other Animals (\u201cAoOA\u201d). <a href=\"https:\/\/anthropologyofotheranimals.wordpress.com\/\">AoOA<\/a> has developed in alliance with The Political Animal Reading Group (The Showroom, London\/ Dublin); ESTAR(SER); Land Art Mongolia (Ulaanbaatar\/ Berlin), Mildred\u2019s Lane (Pennsylvania) and Emerging Subjects of the New Economy at University College London. As a protocol for making and distributing arts and anthropologies (both of and for ourselves as \u2018other animals\u2019), AoOA poaches methodologies from hunters and trap-setters with the aim to establish a recursive and ecological relationship to the social and natural environments it inhabits.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As with \u2018the trap\u2019, the working structure AoOA embraces paradox and the cacophony that inevitably arrives as a bi-product of dedicated experimentation with hard to access perspectives, languages and worlds. As a practice AoOA is necessarily thrifty and adaptable: shunning dogmatism of all forms it is nonetheless concerned with responsibilities and awarenesses that involve the non-human environment, and more specifically those hard-to-access, invisible, elusive or supernatural knowledges that are often overlooked by \u201cenvironmentalisms\u201d elsewhere. As a project of \u2018making art like a trapper\u2019, AoOA is above all a means of staying with the trouble.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Drawing for AoOA is not a drawing of or a drawing about. It is a drawing in.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Sculpture for AoOA exists in the negative as a practice of recursion. A process of doubling, of doing-away-with, of emptying out, of gapping the fill.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Performance for AoOA is a hunt. A dowsing for openings, fissures and escape routes from the structural confinement of speciated existence.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">As a test-space and colloquy AoOA works towards a more expansive, elastic and sustainable platform for these modes of production and future anthropologies of other animals.<\/p>\n<div>The book mentioned in the interview was by Christiana Ritter &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/greystonebooks.com\/products\/a-woman-in-the-polar-night\">A woman in the Polar Night<\/a>&#8216;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/230254064\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/230254064\">UURGA SHIG (What is it like to be a lasso?) \u2013 excerpt<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user9552832\">hermione spriggs<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a><\/p>\n<div>For the Land Art Mongolia Biennial (2014) Hermione Spriggs co-habited with a Mongolian pole lasso called the uurga. She attempted the impossible task of becoming this lasso, which is used by herdsmen to reign in wild horses on the Mongolian Steppe and to communicate with the horses they are riding. The uurga lasso also extends further into human language and practices of fortune \u2013 for instance to be uurga-shig (literally \u201classo-like\u201d in Mongolian) refers to the practice of a man chasing a woman into marriage. The resulting work teases and inverts the assumptions of permanence associated with Western land art, and reflects upon the artist\u2019s primary association with the lasso that is native to the Adobe Photoshop toolbar.<\/div>\n<div>Presented as a two-channel video captured from the point of view of both the rider and the horse at once, here the viewer is invited to step into the space of the lasso, negotiating between the perspectives of human and animal.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6532\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6532\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6532 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=696%2C522&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=1068%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?resize=560%2C420&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/IMG_3331.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6532\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LUCK IN THE DOUBLE FOCUS, Artist book (a mobius strip comic). Hand tinted Xerox on acid free paper, Mongolian felt, greyboard. Edition of 15 (#s 1-3 with musical triangle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6533\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6533\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6533 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=640%2C357&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=1024%2C571&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=768%2C428&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=696%2C388&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=1068%2C595&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?resize=753%2C420&amp;ssl=1 753w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Spriggs-Cooper_Concert-of-A-Lure_2017.png?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6533\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Concert of a-lure, video and live performance, Hermione Spriggs + Laura Cooper 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/HermioneSpriggs.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Hermione Spriggs is a Yorkshire-born artist and researcher working between the fields of art and anthropology. 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