The look: A look at non-Cartesian re-presentation

Abstract

This is an attempt to elucidate non-Cartesian re-presentation (NCR) as a creative methodology allowing for the revealing of nonhuman agencies. Cartesian representation has presented a world of nonhumans ready for consumption, even exploitation. NCR works to reveal what-is and a sense of relational being through the arts encounter, negating a sense of human exceptionalism through movement, reciprocity and slippage. In this proposition I draw from the writing of Barbara Bolt to re-engage with the male philosophies of the past, to re-signify the lines of thinking, to imagine the potentialities of re-presentation outside of the predominate fictive imaginary.