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Bags of Stories: Thinking with Household Casebearers in the Anthropocene
ARTMargins Pub Date : 2023-11-29 , DOI: 10.1162/artm_a_00364
Tan Zi Hao

Household casebearers are a genus of moths primarily distinguished by the spindle-shaped cases they carry and live in throughout their larval life. The cases, woven from household dust, typically comprise an array of materials from textile fibers to dead insect parts. As they thrive in domestic spaces in tropical climates, they are commonly viewed as a domestic pest. Anthropocentrism as such has led to a fundamental imbalance of knowledge concerning these creatures: we are more knowledgeable in their capacity for damage than we are in understanding how they live, even as we cohabit with them very closely, at home. In presenting a series of macro photography of their larval cases, this project invites readers to be attentive to the material and ecological entanglements on display on their intricate creations. The home is already a wilderness as household casebearers rebuild their houses from the dusty ruins of ours.

中文翻译:

故事袋:与人类世家庭案例承载者一起思考

家庭抱箱蛾是一类飞蛾,其主要特征是它们在幼虫一生中携带和生活在纺锤形的箱体中。这些箱子由家庭灰尘编织而成,通常包含从纺织纤维到昆虫尸体等一系列材料。由于它们在热带气候的家庭空间中繁衍生息,因此通常被视为家庭害虫。人类中心主义本身导致了对这些生物的认识的根本失衡:我们对它们造成伤害的能力的了解比我们对它们如何生活的了解要多,即使我们在家里与它们紧密地生活在一起。在展示一系列幼虫案例的宏观摄影时,该项目邀请读者关注他们复杂的创作中所展示的材料和生态纠葛。当家庭案件负责人在我们尘土飞扬的废墟上重建他们的房子时,家里已经变成了一片荒野。
更新日期:2023-11-29
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