Together to Know: In search for Equus Spiritual Experience

Authors

• Mari Keski-Korsu Aalto University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.126190

Keywords:

interspecies, spiritual experience, mirror test for self-awareness, horse

Abstract

Com Scire (2020) is a collaborative art project with horses. The project searches for interspecies spiritual experience and knowledge-production through interspecies spiritual technology represented by a horse-size mirror. This paper compiles observations and learnings from the process of creating Com Scire with horses in Toiska farm, Ilmajoki, Finland.  The research question evolves from asking what a horse sees in the mirror and can this be a spiritual experience for the horse? Com Scire is a part of a broader artistic research process that studies and develops interspecies, empathic, and performative rituals.