Grants and residencies Research and art Learning With Ticks Main applicant Associate Professor Beloff Laura and working group (Beloff & O'Reilly) Members of the project Recipients of monthly grants:Beloff Laura, O'Reilly Kira Amount of funding 28800 € Type of funding General grant call Grant year 2018 Jos omistat hankkeen, voit kirjautua sisään ja lisätä hankkeen tietoja. Log in Share: Back to Grants listing Our project focuses on ticks, the biological invertebrate organism which increasingly is our unavoidable companion in this era of climate change. Using artistic research & practice, with an emphasis on art, science and technology, this project proposes to address the tick as a critical other within the emerging ecologies exacerbated by climate change. How might we reconceive the human/tick relationship, with all the inherent dangers for human health with its increasing capacity as a disease vector? In what ways might we think ecologically about this deeply uncharismatic organism and the futures it holds for us, and we for it? We intend to gain insights into the lifespan of this small creature and its role in changing complex ecosystems, which include, with increasing occurrence humans. We are addressing the theme of ‘Our Vital Neighbors’ by widening up the perception of ticks to a more ambivalent status, that of neighbor species. Within the global context of climate change, to identify approaches that are of the local and the proximal notion of neighbourliness, by paying critical attention to the evolving relationships we have with nonhuman others, in this case - ticks. Back to Grants listing