The Anarchy of Sheep
Rapport, Horizontal Encounters
Daniela Medina Poch
5 minutes
Uruguay, 2023
EXHIBITED AT ArtFest 2023 Garzon, Uruguay
COMISSIONED BY CAMPO Garzon Artistic Residency
December, 2023 Garzon, Uruguay
In the frame of Campo, ArtFest
Curatorship: Patricia Betancur
Can a horizontal posture in disposition to rest contribute to rethink the verticality of the human in front of other species? Could it be a clue as to how a less hierarchical interspecies exchange could take place?
Often considered submissive and compliant, sheep, and prey in general, often have rectangular pupils, a trait that gives them
a panoramic view. Could this horizontal vision entail a more relational way of understanding themselves with other members of the flock and the surrounding environment – perhaps even a shared agency?
Rapport, Horizontal Encounters is a performance in which I sleep in a sheep. Seeking to fall asleep in the presence of a group of sheep is a poetic act of adaptation and surrender that aims to experimentally rethink the animal-human relationship through a negotiation of hierarchies and a change of posture; an attempt to synchronise with interspecies communication channels and eco-centric rhythms.
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– Sustaining Softness amidst Thistles and Snakes
– geolistening shelter
– Das Zentrum von Gestern, die Splitter von heute
– ARDE, homage to reparation processes
– Reset (Chimeric)
– Cuerpo Colectivo
– embodiedclimateagency.net
– estuary thinking
– Intersecting Mediterranean(s)
– What do Snails Think About Nuclear Power Plants?
– Atlantic, Mediterranean, Collision, Coalition
– Environmental Matrix
– If You Listen to Nettles, They Won’t Sting You
– Staying with the Wonder
– The Land of Thunder and Lightning 
– Becoming Anti-Monuments
– Tamed Sirens of the Rhine![]()
– Aqualiteracies
– Babel Media Art
– Fictions / Facts
– We Want You
– Ciudad Anfibia
– Beyond the Döner
– Artistic Negotiations with a Bank
– 1m² Parque la Independencia
– Papel Soberano
– Unitedstater
– A Picture with a Latina
– Metaprotesting
– Public Complaint Office
– Wiping Out My National Identity
- Climate Songs for the Supermarket
- Sustaining Softness amidst Thistles and Snakes
- geolistening shelter
- Das Zentrum von Gestern, die Splitter von heute
- ARDE, homage to reparation processes
- Reset (Chimeric)
- Cuerpo Colectivo
- embodiedclimateagency.net
- estuary thinking
- Intersecting Mediterranean(s)
- What do Snails Think About Nuclear Power Plants?
- Atlantic, Mediterranean, Collision, Coalition
- Environmental Matrix
- If You Listen to Nettles, They Won’t Sting You
- Staying with the Wonder
- The Land of Thunder and Lightning
- Becoming Anti-Monuments
- Tamed Sirens of the Rhine
- Aqualiteracies
- Babel Media Art
- Fictions / Facts
- We Want You
- Ciudad Anfibia
- Beyond the Döner
- Artistic Negotiations with a Bank
- 1m² Parque la Independencia
- Papel Soberano
- Unitedstater
- A Picture with a Latina
- Metaprotesting
- Public Complaint Office
- Wiping Out My National Identity