Lauren Strohacker is an eco-political artist who emphasizes the non-human in an increasingly human-centric world. Her practice is grounded in community, layering public and private space with representations of wild animals. Strohacker’s work is an antithesis of, if not an antidote for, Shifting Baseline Syndrome–the communal process of forgetting natural systems over time, normalizing the ongoing degradation of those systems–in the context of wild animals. Strohacker's practice is co-creative and cross-disciplinary, collaborating with wildlife organizations, artists, experts, and community members on site-specific projects. Together, they “reintroduce” wild animals into human-centric spaces in ways that are uniquely responsive to the target sites and the ecoregion. Projects focus on animals who have been controlled, displaced, eradicated, and, eventually, forgotten by anthropocentric societies. These creative reintroductions are achieved through street art, digital projection, sound installation, sculpture, and new media. Conceptually, placing wild animals in human spaces reflects larger contexts of ecology, politics, and radical interspecies municipalism.
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