With the support of i-Portunus and in collaboration with the ICI in London, Michela de Mattei is working on Translocalia’s Interspecies communication and learning line of research. The collaboration will unfold through a translocal residency between London, Milan and Dubai, regarding two projects by the artist. 

The first one is part of the series ‘Estée Lauder’, which consists of four videos recording conversations between a Gloucester-based, Myna bird and the artist who has been attempting, since 2015, to develop a shared language to reflect on ways to reconnect with other species. The second part of the residency relates to the project ‘Until lions have their historians, hunters will always be the heroes’, which aims to portray an animal perspective to rewrite a collective history from their standpoint.