Artist Statement

I am an artist-animal-cyborg figuring out how to eat, sleep, shit, and reproduce within the Anthropocene. I’m exploring these activities at the fluctuating intersections of what we call nature, culture, and technology. These explorations might take place at a campsite under a freeway, through the lens of a zoo’s webcam, or in the eye of a buffalo, mounted on the wall of a dive bar. I argue that distinctions of man, animal, woman, and machine only prevent us from understanding our shared experiences, and limit our potential for collaborative action.

When someone interacts with my work, my intention is to make them uncomfortably aware of their body. Their animal body, that breathes, sweats, bleeds, and dies, just like all other animal bodies. My work exposes the superficial “culture camouflage” of money, cities, the internet, laws, etc. that have given us the illusion of superiority. My work invents wild technologies that equalizes our unequal bodies. My work proposes an acceptance of our fragile reality, and an end to our futile, and often destructive attempts at control.

Contact: contact.curtis.art@gmail.com