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To Love a Rat, Peace Karma Food

two ethnographic engagements with animals

Since 2010, I have conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodian minefields. My videos are montages of human-animal relationships in a minefield. The first project, To Love a Rat, is a direct cinema take on Cambodian deminers as they learn to love the landmine detection rats, imported Gambian Pouched Rats trained to detect landmines. In Peace Karma Food, I offer a multi-screen montage of animal-human relationships that fulfill disarmament, karmic balance, and food in Cambodia. Check out my writing and some of my footage in an interview with The Conversation.

Peace Karma Food at the EcoCultures Tentworks Exhibit 2018

Peace Karma Food at the EcoCultures Tentworks Exhibit 2018

Interior of Tentworks Exhibit at EcoCultures Symposium in 2018

Interior of Tentworks Exhibit at EcoCultures Symposium in 2018

Interior of Tentworks multiscreen projection of Peace Karma Food

Interior of Tentworks multiscreen projection of Peace Karma Food