Species to Species Audio Guided Walk

Among all-time children’s stories, Aesop’s fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse depict the lives of mice in relation to their environments. The country mouse in the story could not tolerate the risks of living in a city, yet the reality is that more mice actually live in cities and are willing to endure the stress.

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Hence, the landscape Aesop had portrayed then no longer corresponds to the present.

With the story as the prelude,

Species to Species Audio Guided Walk receives the landscape of London from a new aspect.

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Influenced by the configuration of And while London Burns, an operatic audio tour, the project comprises a narrated audio guide in sync with a designed route that begins at Waterloo station and ends at Southwark station, and a View-Master® viewer with two reels. Throughout the walk, the receptor is encouraged to look through the viewer, which reveals the very landscape from the perspective of a city mouse.

 

The aim of the project Species to Species is to suggest a different engagement with space,

and a different manner of contact with the nonhumans in the prominent contact zone,

city, the habitat of more-than-humans.

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It is to ultimately provoke the beginning of a new conversation in which every being can be in different,

but comparable stances.