{"id":15502,"date":"2021-06-25T14:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artjournalstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=15502"},"modified":"2021-07-14T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T14:20:09","slug":"feral-intimacies-part-i-super-furs-for-the-super-futures-77-beavereavement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/?p=15502","title":{"rendered":"Feral Intimacies, Part I\u2014Super Furs for the Super Futures 77: Beavereavement<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Feral Intimacies<\/a> <\/em>is an online exhibition comprising two newly commissioned digital projects by Super Futures Haunt Qollective (SFHQ) and Jeremiah Barber, created this spring at a critical juncture in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Pivoting their embodied and performance-based practices to digital engagements in order to accommodate the transformed conditions of everyday life, these artists imagine expansive forms of relation across distance and difference\u2014 across the mediated spaces of the internet, and through multispecies affinities and solidarities against capitalism, land theft, displacement, and genocide. Their projects move through love, wonder, mourning, and grief as collective and communal acts of fashioning a world that is more just and joyful than the one we inhabit now. They envision human-animal relations and collaborations across multiple scales, from the most personal to the world-historical, and ruminate on the generative possibilities of feral intimacies<\/em>\u2014or forms of connection untamed by heteronormative, colonial, and capitalist structures of family, kinship, and home. The ways of being together that SFHQ and Barber fantastically imagine are not meant to be fully comprehended or captured, but rather can inspire us toward transforming all our relations to be less alienated, damaging, or unsustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first installment of this exhibition, SFHQ (whose members include Angie Morrill, F. Sam Jung, and C. Ree) presents the animated zine Super Furs for the Super Futures 77: Beavereavement<\/em> as a simultaneous gift for the public and a memorial for Leroy Xavier Morrill, a young Klamath man taken prematurely from this realm. The fanzine pays homage to multiple inspirations adored by the trio and their extended kin and grieves the accumulated losses of family members, homelands, and entire lifeworlds. These sources include the late emo rapper LiL PEEP; K-Pop sensation Taeyang and his hit song \u201c\ub208,\ucf54,\uc785 (Eyes, Nose, Lips)\u201d; and, most prominently, hordes of beavers on the rampage all over continental North America. From an initial research interest in the seventy-six beavers relocated by parachute in 1948 by the Idaho Fish and Game Department<\/a>, SFHQ\u2019s three future ghosts (as the collective\u2019s members identify themselves) make kin with the lost seventy-seventh beaver who did not survive this forced relocation, and all other beavers who refuse to be disappeared by death or dispossession. Scrolling headlines of beaver takeovers of waterways and land grabs through the decades prove that nature is healing; beavers are not only metaphors of resistance but they also embody refusal, resurgence, and regeneration in their individual and collective beings. Yet while beavers are imaginatively resurrected here by SFHQ and find ways of surviving, they ultimately\u2014like all of us living\u2014still die. LiL PEEP and Taeyang are the soundtrack that carries them over. Weaving these disparate sources and binding them together through shared love, SFHQ\u2019s Beavereavement <\/em>affirms that grieving together is how we take care of our ghosts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Thea Quiray Tagle, Guest Curator<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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