Animal Land

Animal Land is a visual metaphor for wildlife in the industrialized world, an unfolding narrative that wavers between displacement, reintroduction, and loss.

Collaborators Lauren Strohacker and Kendra Sollars began collaborating on Animal Land in 2013, combining Strohacker’s animal-centric public art practice with Sollars’s experience in digital media technology to reimagine traditional wildlife encounters through digital video projections. The artists work with wildlife rehabilitation centers, education institutions, and sanctuaries to collect animal footage, highlighting both the animals affected by and humans responding to interspecies conflict in urban and suburban space. The footage collected with the help of these organizations are edited to be slow-moving, soundless, ghost-like entities completely decontextualized from a natural environment in order to inhabit and confront the built environment in which they are projected.

Strohacker and Sollars are responding to the current and rapid loss of biodiversity and investigating a future where genuine interactions between humans and non-human animals may not exist.

Animal Land is possible through relationships with local wildlife organizations.

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Tucson Wildlife Center
Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center
Liberty Wildlife
Phoenix Herpetological Sanctuary
Blandford Nature Center
National Elk Refuge
Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center

Animal Land is an on-going project. See all installation videos on Vimeo. Follow the project by visiting and liking our Facebook Page.

Project Honors

In 2016, Strohacker and Sollars presented Animal Land: Visualizing Cohabitation & Conflict for the Annenberg Space for Photography's Iris Nights Lecture Series.

Click here to watch the full Iris Nights Lecture: Visualizing Cohabitation & Conflict