Fran Bartkowski: Kissing Cousins

Fran Bartkowski: Kissing Cousins

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Fran Bartkowski: Kissing Cousins

Fran Bartkowski: Kissing Cousins

Sat, Mar 28, 2015, 10:00am
  • Pittsburgh Cultural Trust and the Humanities Center at CMU
  • Trust Arts Education Center
  • Ticket Prices
    Festival Pass: $20 for general admission; $10 for students

Frances Bartkowski, author of Kissing Cousins: A New Kinship Bestiary, is interested in that place where curiosity, fascination and fear meet up between humans and other animals. In our daily lives Facebook feeds flood us with still and moving images of how we humans and our animals tickle each other’s fancies, touch each other’s bodies, hearts, minds and spirits, and sometimes terrify in their real and imaginary forms that visit our homes, our yards, our streets, our dark dream spaces. We are moved from lust to disgust, from desire to repulsion, from delicious proximity to compulsory distance. Before there was Facebook to delight and instruct us when we least expected it, there were family trips, school trips, photographs and films that made it possible to safely stand or sit, and see and look. There were zoos, circuses, and reserves where we got as close as was permissible and accessible. We painted them on cave walls, not self-portraits or other humans whom we could look at any time.

Trust Arts Education Center, Pierce Studio

This event is part of the Pittsburgh Humanities Festival. Learn more here.

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