Cut Me Up Issue 8: Guided by Instinct
38 Pages
$18

Cut Me Up Issue 8: Guided by Instinct, curated by Naomi White, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore humans’ complex relationships with animals.

Guided by Instinct

As a species, we have evolved alongside animals. Our voices have developed in dialogue with animal howls, our vision evolving in concert with animal eyes. Our first paintings in caves were of animals, made with animal blood. Animals shape who we are.

In our complex relationship to animals, there are many contradictions. We mythologize and revere animals, yet sacrifice, tame, kill and consume them. Through the destruction and contamination of the environment, we have decimated the habitats of countless animal species. At this moment there is only 19% of wilderness left on Earth.

Exploring our simultaneous desire to both love and destroy, care for and dominate animals, how can collage investigate our complex relationship to animals — the dualisms they embody, and the contradictions in ourselves that they illuminate?

– Naomi White, Artist and Educator

About Cut Me Up:
Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a call—a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks. The newly created responses will form the content of the next issue.

Issue 8 Cover Art:
Suné Woods

Issue 8 Artists:
Sarah Best
Cheryl Chudyk
Bradley Foisset
Carrie Forman
Nina Fraser
Alex Goldberg
Morgane Hebert
Baz Here
Clive Knights
Iain Machell
Michelle L. Miller
Scott Neff
Eleanor Nelson
Amanda Rowan
Rosie Schinners
Laurent Seljan
Rosanne Walsh
Suné Woods