We, the they

Visual Art
Written By Meaghan Elyse Lueck & Char Jeré
 

“We, the they” is a short video essay, a palimpsest of home videos, found footage and graphics pulled and pasted together by artists Meaghan Elyse Lueck and Char Jeré. It is a surreal and collaged account of their bodies becoming more like creatures in their environment, specifically cats and birds (typically warring species, fused together into one).

Char’s voice explains: “we were an experiment. A human-cat-bird hybrid that could communicate with all of nature. We were born in this lab. And planted like tomato seeds.”

The composition of different species is paralleled in the assemblage of media, as if to make the larger statement that all things are related – all things are touching each other all the time. Now more than ever, Donna Haraway’s notion of “becoming with the other” feels crucial if we are going to survive this planetary crisis together.

 

Video, 10:45 min, 2022

Meaghan Elyse Lueck & Char Jeré

Char Jeré is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of race, technology and urban ecology. Jeré received their masters in Data Analytics and Visualizations from Pratt Institute, where they graduated with distinction, and a Sound Art MFA at Columbia University.

Meaghan Elyse Lueck is an artist and designer whose interdisciplinary work explores the boundaries of home, the boundaries of our bodies, and the porousness of these edges. In this moment of ecological and spiritual loss, heartache and disorientation, she hopes the sentient architectures she builds will offer space for some pause, healing and reimagining. Lueck holds an MFA from Columbia University.

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