Katharina Swoboda
Straying as Research
My project deals with straying – specifically, with those animals to whom we usually attribute straying as a method: stray cats. They exist in almost all human population centers, although they are more noticeable in some cities than in others. In Vienna, they tend to operate in secret. Any search for strays opens up unexpected encounters, not only with cats, but with people and stories too. Stray cats may be part of the city, but they move along paths unknown to people. But what are the paths that they take? This project approaches straying with the help of media techniques such as video traps and GPS sensors on the one hand, and interviews and observations on the other.
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