🐖PIG RESPONSE PROJECT🐖

Pigs are sick. In fact, they are also living through an unprecedented time of their own: a pandemic. Carried through an african swine fever virus, the disease has now spread around the world and continues to thrive in the bodies of wild and domesticated pigs. Despite the african swine fever pandemic claiming millions of pig lives around the world, pig well being is far from the focus of the story.

In response to this, 🐖PIG RESPONSE PROJECT🐖 creates a response structure that tries to find ways to practice care-ful pig-human relations. We want to grieve about pig lives lost, commemorate them and celebrate them.

The project is an ongoing open invitation for our friends and creative practitioners to create a response to the pig pandemic - be it through having a relationship with a particular pig, pig research, pig art or pig curiosity.

Some of the responses in the 🐖PIG RESPONSE PROJECT🐖 will be of individual nature (I am pig; Cloud, pig field observations), others unfold through conversations and recordings (antiviral pig pod, trello research schematics).

We hope that the practices involved in the 🐖PIG RESPONSE PROJECT🐖 offer ways to recognise the scale and injustice of pigs’ deaths for all those that respond individually and at the same time become an opportunity to socialize the responses - the grief, the fear, the anger, the confusion, the uncanniness of our intertwined lives with other species and many more - process it collectively and turn into source of care for and celebration of pigs. Rooted in Donna Haraway’s proposal of being response-able, we hope that this project offers pathways recognizing the messy entanglements of the Anthropocene and ways we make it together with other creatures.