The animal and being animal is a proposition and position that invites observational and critical debate. Yet, the presence of the non-human animal is usually and normatively confined to representational artworks rather than the animal itself in the gallery or museum, which is, potentially, problematically anthropocentric. Using diverse methods, processes, and materials, and curious to a myriad of opening potentialities, Bartram + Deigaard, in contrast to this problem, explore working as humans from an animal-centric perspective through artistic research. They bring sensitivities to their handling of the animal, as both artistic subject and collaborator, to observe and engage with empathy and openness to animal insight and revelation and behaviour. Their works in performance, video, drawing, and printmaking foreground animal proximity and behaviour, inter-species proprioception, reciprocal caretaking, synchronised respiration, and companionate movement. This article explores the socialised and familiar in close observation, directly and indirectly, in their individual yet companion practices, illuminating the benefits of a radically enlarged sentiocentrism. It reflects on the allowing and embracing of other species within their artworks, and of being mindful and sensible with balancing sympathies and empathies as humans within an often unbalanced system of agency. Specifically, it gleans patterns and insights from their exhibition at Tippetts and Eccles Galleries at Utah State University in 2021, where they invited a canine collaborator into their thinking through praxis and the interventions and residual outcomes this created. This essay discusses two individual video artworks from each artist, which document their invitations to non-human animals into the gallery or museum, and two durational artworks curated within this exhibition.

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共享大脑、本体感受和批判性地将动物视为艺术品中的动物

动物和动物是一个命题和立场，需要观察和批判性辩论。然而，非人类动物的存在通常且规范地局限于具象艺术作品，而不是画廊或博物馆中的动物本身，这可能是有问题的以人类为中心的。Bartram + Deigaard 使用不同的方法、过程和材料，并且对无数开放的潜力充满好奇，与这个问题相反，通过艺术研究从以动物为中心的角度探索作为人类的工作。他们将敏感性带到他们对动物的处理中，作为艺术主体和合作者，以同理心和开放的态度观察和参与动物的洞察力、启示和行为。他们的作品包括表演、影像、绘画、和版画前景动物的接近和行为、物种间的本体感觉、相互照顾、同步呼吸和伴随运动。本文通过密切观察，直接和间接地探讨社会化和熟悉的人在他们个人但伴侣的实践中，阐明了从根本上扩大的情感中心主义的好处。它反映了在他们的艺术作品中允许和拥抱其他物种，以及在一个经常不平衡的代理系统中作为人类在平衡同情和同理心时保持谨慎和明智。具体来说，它从他们于 2021 年在犹他州立大学 Tippetts 和 Eccles 画廊举办的展览中收集了模式和见解，在那里他们邀请了一只犬类合作者通过实践以及由此产生的干预和剩余结果进行思考。