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Woof Woof: Becoming Animal
Grant Watson, Beáta Veszely, Steve Baker, Mileta Prodanovic, David Wilkinson,
László Beke, Franz Kafka, Peter Pommerer, Michaela Math

36pp, black and white illustrations
95 x 195 mm, paperback
Published 2001, ISBN 0-9520274-3-7, £4.00

This publication accompanied the exhibition Woof Woof: Becoming Animal at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London. The exhibition includes artists from Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Poland, the UK and Brazil and features work that touches on being or becoming animal.

The booklet features essays and reflections by artists and writers on the subject of becoming animal, including specially commissioned writing by Simon Baker and Mileta Prodanovic as well as texts by the exhibition curators, Grant Watson and Beáta Veszely, and stories and fragments by Franz Kafka.

Animals have had a multiplicity of meanings and functions: as food, as pets and as symbols of virtues, ideas and psychological states. Becoming animal means moving away from the anthropomorphic, away from human sense into animal non-sense.