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Hunting in the Contact Zone

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The Hunting and Nature Museum’s unique perspective on “Nature” and wilderness is twofold, building both on hunting myths and the sensible experience of the hunter, two dimensions that are consistently questioned, hijacked or re-invested through Claude d’Anthenaise’s daring curatorial practice. Instead of mitigating the complications imbedded in its identity, the museum chose to address those issues, albeit by museographical and curatorial design, rather than through direct or didactic statement, becoming what we propose to describe as a naturalcultural contact zone which offers an anthropozoological perspective on hunting, that obliges us to stay with the trouble and explore a-moral stories that allow for renewed explorations of our representations of nature. We also explore how the Hunting and Nature museum, engaging with ever unstable equilibria, has consistently invited the visitors to stand in the hunter’s boots, following animal tracks into an experiential, liminal contact zone that raises questions of reversibility, and reciprocity, and leads us to think anew about the human relationship to wild fauna. In doing so, we emphasise the museum’s role as less a cabinet of curiosities, where the visitor is presented with a series of curious, but still inert, objects, than an apparatus for encouraging a form of active curiosity to non-human worlds. An intensified, dynamic attention, a continued state of suspense that renders one available for the encounter, rather than a collection of de-animated objects.
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hal-03935661 , version 1 (27-05-2024)

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Joshua de Paiva, Anne de Malleray. Hunting in the Contact Zone. Antennae. The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2020, pp.26-53. ⟨hal-03935661⟩
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