Issue #83 Human Animal Song

Human Animal Song

Marion von Osten

Issue #83
June 2017

trimmed wanted watched
acknowledged caged bedded
sold sized shipped

caressed bought admired
hosted petted loved

freed healed jammed
carried boxed adored
coached abused entitled
drilled coddled fed

cultured graded fondled
divided exhibited bred
appraised described hunted
killed pampered trained

painted handled traded
regarded reared studied
groomed specified examined
displaced eaten floated

fostered explored kept
hosted petted loved

presented observed guarded
prized narrated protected
nursed needed rated
shot replaced shaped

proven read valued
drilled coddled fed

zoned straightened raised
registered shared transported
varied ordered required
hosted petted loved

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Poetry
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Marion von Osten is a cultural producer and founding member of Labor k3000 Zurich, of kpD- kleines post-fordistisches Drama and of the Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC, Berlin) Research and exhibition projects include: Viet Nam Diskurs Stockholm, Tensta Konsthall 2016, Aesthetics of Decolonization, with Serhat Karakayali. (ith, ZHDK Zurich/ Center for Post-colonial Knowledge and Culture (CPKC, Berlin); Model House—Mapping Transcultural Modernisms, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / CPKC, Berlin, 2010–2013; Action! painting/publishing, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Paris, 2011–2012; In the Desert of Modernity—Colonial Planning and After, Les Abattoirs de Casablanca, 2009 and Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2008; Projekt Migration, Cologne, 2002–2006; and TRANSIT MIGRATION, Zürich, Frankfurt, and Kölnischer Kunstverein, 2003–2005.

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