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The Multispecies Salon presents:
Raw Milk
Thursday, February 10th, 12:30-1:30 pm ~ free and open to the public
CUNY Graduate Center, Room 5307
365 Fifth Ave (in between 34th & 35th Street), New York, NY 10016
Sponsored by the Mellon Science Studies Committee
Featuring art and artifacts from the Pretty Goat Guerrilla Dairy in New Orleans as well as “Transfers” by Caitlin Berrigan—a video installation depicting two performers transferring one full pitcher of milk through the interface of their mouths, to fill an empty pitcher. Come for conversation with artists and intellectuals on the subject of raw milk. Cheeses, soap, and milk in a liquid form will be on offer. There will be three presentations:
R.A.W. Assmilk Soap, Karin Bolender (Rural Alchemy Workshop)
Human Cheese, Miriam Simun (New York University)
“Policing People and Microbes: Raw Milk Economies in Post-Socialist Europe”, Diana Mincyte (Yale University)
For more information:
Eben Kirksey, ekirksey@gc.cuny.edu, +1.212.817.709
As artists, academics, and significant others come together to break bread in this multispecies meal we will interrogate ideas about Edible Companions—one of three themes at play in the Multispecies Salon, an art exhibit that has traveled to San Francisco, New Orleans, and New York City. We will eat creatures that Donna Haraway calls companion species. Companion comes from the Latin cum panis, with bread, Haraway writes. Companion species include such organic beings as rice, bees, tulips, and intestinal flora, all of whom make life for humans what it is, and vice versa. Our table will be spread with offerings from organisms that are not just good to think with (as Lévi-Strauss had it), or more instrumentally, good to eat (as Marvin Harris countered), but also entities, and agents, that are good to live with (as Donna Haraway maintains).
Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.) 