Animalesque with Daisy Hildyard Wednesday 1 April 2020 Across three 5-minute sessions, writer Daisy Hildyard offers readings from selected texts in response to the exhibition Animalesque / Art Across Species and Beings at BALTIC. These extracts resonate with the exhibition by inviting us to re-think human's position in the world, their relationship to the natural world and to the various complex ecologies that bond beings together. Images here: http://balticplus.uk/animalesque-exhibition-images-c33852/ 1. From Anna Tsing, The Mushroom at the End of the World, ​published 2015 Reflecting on the exhibition. 2. From Svetlana Alexievich, Chernobyl Prayer, published 1997 In response to Pierre Huyghe, Human Mask (2014). 3. From Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being​, published 2016 Reflecting on Ho Tzu Nyen, 2 or 3 Tigers (2015); Pia Arke with Anders Jorgensen, Tupilakosaurus (1999) and Britta Marakatt-Labba, Borrhål (2018), Mellan två världar, Snömodd (2019). Daisy Hildyard is the author of Hunters in the Snow (Jonathan Cape, 2013), a novel about farmers, and The Second Body (2017) and an essay about humans and animals in the Anthropocene. BALTIC Podcasts Join us every fortnight for a series of podcasts exploring BALTIC exhibitions led by special guests. In these, artists, writers, academics and other guests offer short talks in their field of expertise to further explore the concepts and themes of our programme.