Bestiaries of the More-Than-Humane

​We partner with the intellectually dazzling Berggruen Press to bring you a workshop from artist and experimental philosopher Jonathon Keats, author of the new book, A Field Guide to More-Than-Human Governance.

​Taking inspiration from medieval bestiaries, this workshop is designed to explore lessons in righteousness learned from nonhuman creatures, providing a space for creative expression of the more-than-humane. Participants are invited to evaluate the lifeways of animals and plants and fungi they know personally, deriving guidance that might be applied to the human domain. Each participant narrates and illustrates what one of the creatures has to teach in a small hand-crafted book, using standard arts-and-crafts supplies and/or scrap materials.