Asian Beasts & Cures
illustrations pour un bestiaire pharmaceutique
Annu Jalais, Mathieu Quet, Marine Al Dahdah, Aarthi Sridhar
Web design Shrinivas Ananthanarayanan
Université de Paris, ANR, National University of Singapore
2021
J’ai dessiné 77 bestioles de face et de profil pour un bestiaire dans le cadre du projet «Non-humans and Zoonoses: what do they tell us about ourselves?» (Université de Paris, ANR, National University of Singapore). Le site internet présente des animaux d’Asie et de l’Océan Indien utilisés pour la fabrication de médicaments traditionnels ou issus de l’industrie pharmaceutique. Les courts articles du site sont rédigés par des étudiants.
"The pharmaceutical industry, be it “traditional” or “biomedical”, uses animal life or products of animal origin at different stages of innovation and manufacturing (...). Every year, millions of animals are culled, and millions of tons of products of animal origin are used all over the world in order to treat diseases and cure people (...)
This website aims at interrogating such practices, and pay tribute to the nonhumans that are so integral, often–but not always–in an exploitative way, towards the maintenance of human health and the production of human well-being. In doing so, the website highlights the multiple entanglements that link humans and nonhumans in a highly globalized and technologized world (...)."
"The pharmaceutical industry, be it “traditional” or “biomedical”, uses animal life or products of animal origin at different stages of innovation and manufacturing (...). Every year, millions of animals are culled, and millions of tons of products of animal origin are used all over the world in order to treat diseases and cure people (...)
This website aims at interrogating such practices, and pay tribute to the nonhumans that are so integral, often–but not always–in an exploitative way, towards the maintenance of human health and the production of human well-being. In doing so, the website highlights the multiple entanglements that link humans and nonhumans in a highly globalized and technologized world (...)."
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