Sonic Space, Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives, EMΣT, Athens
16 May 2025 to 15 February 2026
Jana is participating in the Sonic Space inside the main exhibition with an excerpt of DIVE.
From the curatorial text by Katerina Gregos, Artistic Director, ΕΜΣT:
Why Look at Animals? A Case for the Rights of Non-Human Lives
is a major group exhibition that centres on animal rights and
animal well-being, highlighting the need to recognise and defend
the lives of non-human animals in an anthropocentric world
that marginalises, oppresses and brutalises them. The exhibition
is inspired by the seminal text of the same name by John Berger,
“Why Look at Animals?” (1980), which explores the animal-human
relationship in modernity and how animals have become marginalised
in human societies. With the participation of more than 60
artists from four continents and with over 200 works occupying
all the floors of the Museum, Why Look at Animals? is the largest
exhibition ever organized by EMΣT and the first major exhibition
on non-human animal rights internationally.
Τhe exhibition features a guest curated project, Sonic Space,
consisting of a selection of audio works created by artists and
researchers in fields such as zoomusicology and eco-acoustics,
curated by Joanna Zielińska
