Invoking the Bestiary is a research performance that unfolds as a lecture that transforms into a ritual, weaving together two usually distinct forms of the demonstration of the mastery of knowledge systems, between traditional and Western forms of thought. The work revolves around the idea of shapeshifting and departs from a series of encounters and conversations, real and imagined, against the backdrop of the pro-democracy movement in Thailand. It delves into the complexities of relations to more-than-human worlds and their eruptive presence within contemporary political and naturecultural imaginations.

The performance was part of The School of Interspecies Diplomacy. The School of Interspecies Diplomacy is an artistic project by Mali Weil that hybridises fiction and real knowledge production practices around interspecies and caring relationships between human and beyond human in times of climate change.
Based on an act of worlding by Mali Weil, where one imagines a world in which interspecies diplomacy is politically recognized and fully operational, the School is an institution that offers continuous training courses and dissemination of the complex interdisciplinary skills needed to negotiate relations between human and non-human.

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https://www.maliweil.org/school-of-interspecies-diplomacies/