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Nigel was a male Australian gannet who spent his last years living on the New Zealand island of Mana, where he befriended a concrete decoy of a member of his species. Departing from the moving history of this seabird, Filipa Ramos will reflect on the importance of forms of love, ethics, and care that cross species, gender, and life boundaries for a renewed ecological sensibility and environmental preservation.

Filipa Ramos is a Lisbon-born writer and lecturer based in London. She is curator of Art Basel Film. Her research looks at humanity’s engagement with animals in the contexts of art and artists’ cinema. Her essays and texts have been published in magazines and books worldwide. With Andrea Lissoni, she founded and curates Vdrome, a program of screenings of artists’ films. She is a lecturer at Central Saint Martins, London, and the Arts Institute of the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Basel.

She was editor in chief of art-agenda, associate editor of Manifesta Journal, and a contributor to Documenta 13 (2012) and 14 (2017). She edited Animals (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2016) and curated the group exhibition “Animalesque” (Bildmuseet Umeå, Summer 2019, and BALTIC, Gateshead, Winter 2019/20). She curates the ongoing symposia series The Shape of a Circle in the Mind of a Fish with Lucia Pietroiusti for the Serpentine Galleries.

This presentation is part of the Master’s of Visual Studies Proseminar, in partnership with Mercer Union.