Pam Deng Chen

About

Pam is an art director. Her works mainly focus on women’s rights, animal rights, and discussing the relationship between humans and nature through moving images.

Her present project “A Proposal About Foxes” documents her own journey by making intervention in the urban environment under the fictional identity of “non-human residents coordinator” to make it more habitable for other non-human species. In this case, focus on foxes specifically. These interventions are symbolic gestures designed to provoke questions in the audience about cohabitation with other species and the possibilities for future non-human centered urban design.

If we want to preserve and promote the life and diversity of non-human species on our planet, we as humans will need to make sacrifices – sacrifices of resources, space and time. Many people can abstractly agree with ‘saving elephants’ in other countries but would turn away from the idea of making their garden more hospitable for foxes for example. This project aims to raise these questions – to ask the audience what they are willing to sacrifice in their daily lives to preserve non-human species in the future.

Through moving images and collection of written records, this project as an embodied provocation for audiences to re/imagining the co-living experience with wild in the city, by entering a fictional world where animals enjoy the same rights as humans and feel the changes would occur in a specific area under such a premise. And think, “what it will be when we get to a point where our wants and needs as humans do not necessarily come first?”