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“What I think is this: You should give up looking for lost cats and start searching for the other half of your shadow.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
If you live in New York and are free this Friday at 7:00 pm, join me at the MoMA for “An Evening with VALIE EXPORT,” with the event introduced by the artist herself. The film schedule includes the following Austrian avant-garde cinema including, Invisible Adversaries (1977), which is written and directed by Valie Export, followed by Kurt Kren’s 5/62 Window Watchers, Rubbish, etc (1962) and Hans Scheugl’s Hernals (1967).
Valie Export is a Austrian artist and part of Wiener Aktionsgruppe. Perhaps one of her most well-known works is Touch Cinema (illustrated above) in which she walked around a public square wearing a box on her upper body and invited strangers to put their hands through the holes in the box and fondle her body. The result was de-eroticization of the scopophilic experience by robbing the experience of anonymity and consequently short-circuiting the cycle of control and power by reclaiming the agency over her body.
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Today is #WildlifeWednesday at Reclamation!
At Reclamation, many employees have the opportunity to see wildlife while working in the field. Occasionally, lucky employees get to see the fleet-footed pronghorn antelope. Most pronghorn antelope reside in the western United States and parts of Canada.
The photos shown today were taken in 1946, near Las Vegas, Nevada. At the time, the animals’ populations had fallen in the Boulder Dam area, and in an effort to restore the species’ population, the Fish and Wildlife Service of the Department of the Interior brought in five baby antelope.
The pronghorn is an herbivore, and its menu includes an array of prairie plants; most commonly grasses and sagebrush. Pronghorns are relatively small compared to its close relatives in Asia and Africa. They tend to be about three feet tall, and are a reddish brown color with white bellies and white stripes on their throats. The pronghorn antelope is unique within the antelope species because they are able to raise the hair on their rears to display a white “warning patch” that can be seen by herd mates in order to alert them.
Their horns are quite impressive. They are often wide and curved, and have sharp pointed ends to use as defense mechanisms against predators. In some cases, their horns have been known to extend beyond one foot in length! The average lifespan of pronghorn antelope is about 11 years.
Pronghorn antelope are the second fastest land mammal in the world (cheetahs are still the fastest), and have been found to travel in excess of 53 miles per hour, which often allows them to outrun their predators which can typically only run at about half that speed.
*DISCLAIMER: Civilians should not approach wild animals, both for the safety of themselves, and of the animals.
Information Source:
National Geographic. 2016. “Pronghorn.” Animals. Last updated in 2016. Accessed December 1, 2016. www.animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/antelope/.