"population billions"

Ashley Watson and Matt Page
united states
www.populationbillions.com

The perceived distance between what is human and what is animal is a cultural construct, shifting on faulty ground, where fences become spaces and definitions blur. These are the locations Anima seeks to occupy, at least for brief moments. In the borderlands, there exist moments of perception that lay beyond the human experience, where animal becomes human and human becomes animal. Here, moments of confusion can become moments of clarity, where the weight of culture is slightly lifted, but the daunting imperceptibility of nature urges us back through the gates. Anima is interested in these moments of destabilization and puncturing. It is in those moments that new momentum is gained. Both artists are very committed to these pursuits, but invest an equal amount of time and energy into community animal activism.

"Businessman IV"

Eric Redetzke
united states
www.redetzke.com

"Dolphins" still from DVD “Animals In Their World” a film of a book 2005

Kate Corder
united kingdom
www.katecorder.net

Kate Corder graduated from the University of Reading MFA in 2006. She currently resides in Reading and has lived previously to that in London and New York.
As a multiple disciplined vegan artist Kate wishes to establish a dialogue that seeks to question ideas of ethics through the use of aesthetics without resorting to the traditionally obvious use of media.
The aesthetic use of material in her artwork pre-empts the notion of the political through the understated layering of signification.
The visual referencing that occurs in her artwork pertains to a response to global thinking. She constructs fragmented narratives and merges old myths appropriating and referencing art history with modern industrial subjects. A visual ‘thinking out loud’ in reaction to media and government brainwashing of our materialistic consumer society. The underlying themes of myth, endangerment, extinction, and environment, global warming and animal rights emerge through out her practice.
Kate’s working methodology moves between drawings, DVD’s, mixed media sculptural installation, paintings that are worked off stretcher using mostly vegetable watercolours sometimes oil. She uses a lot of recycled materials, a combination of low tech / high tech technology and activity.

"su turno"

Sierra
spain
www.woundfuck.blogspot.com
www.fotolog.com/puff_puff

- A little more to your left. That's it... Veeeeery good. Lift your head a little bit more. There! Keep still... Perfect! Now stay like that. Don't move... That's right, very good...
- Aghhhh!!!
- …

image addressing the fossil fuels crisis

Maggie Suisman
United States
www.maggiesuisman.com

"the beans are crawling up the corn,
pumpkin pie is cooling on the sill,
and i don't owe a dime to any living soul"
or
"the mckibben sisters"

Travis Nichols
united states
www.ilikeapplejuice.com

Travis Nichols is an artist, musician and cartoonist living in Austin, TX.
He has exhibited throughout Texas and the southwest United States. His works of primarily acrylic, spray paint and ink are most often done on recycled/reclaimed materials such as wood, discarded matboard and thrift store prints. His comics appear in Nickelodeon Magazine, and he has self-published over a dozen comic books. He tours the country with his sci-fi synth-pop band/performance art project, OMEGA MONSTER PATROL!, living on a food concoction called "Trav Chow". He enjoys organic gardening and plans on one day building an underground house.

"tapemurder"

Javier R. Rosell
Spain
www.fotolog.com/best_crack_party

To belong to art is almost the most clever and mature way to be stupid and immature. It´s also the best way to laugh at something what isn´t funny at all.

"Missing Bodies #1", 2004, digital photomontage, (from the Animals in Mind series).

Julie A. McConnell
united states
www.julieamcconnell.com

Photographer Julie A. McConnell embeds disturbing,
surreal images within apparently benign photographs of
people in ordinary situations. These hybrid images and
composites compel us to ask ourselves whether we
consider all species equally, and to examine the
implicit denial in our relationship to non-human
beings. Finally she challenges us to focus on our
exploitation and displacement of animals and to use
the creative potential of human thought to find a
solution.

Donna Maria DeCreeft, artist and writer for artezine.com

"udder fist"

Jt Yost
united states
www.jtyost.com

J.T. Yost is a little man, so when he 'looks out for the little guy', i suppose it's a bit self-serving. He (barely) makes a living through freelance illustration and personalized pet portraits. He thinks it
somewhat pompous to refer to himself in the third-person, as if he weren't the one writing this blurb, so he'll use first person from here out...I love all critters, and I do what I can to help them avoid
abuse or consumption. Please visit my website (http://www.jtyost.com) to view vegan themed comics and art, or to commission a pet portrait (I donate ten percent of profits to animal friendly organizations).
Thanks to Veronica for setting up this nice little show...wish I lived
in Spain so I could come and see it!