Giulia Dussollier
"I have gone into the dog.
Now it's too late, I can't disengage.
So I'm moving on and dig in."
Giulia Dussollier
Giulia Dussollier is a French-Italian artist based in Paris.
She performs in the shows of the company Désirades and the collective La Ville en Feu. She has met dogs and professionals from the canine world and is training in ethology. Here she presents some extracts from her new project after having directed Les Promeneuses, her first short film from a dog's point of view, with the artist Clara Benoit Jacoby.
I have always known that the dogs would invite me to do something. And that I would do things for the dogs, that I would dedicate myself to them, that I would care deeply for them. And they repay me because it's endless.
I have always known that the dogs would invite me to do something. And that I would do things for the dogs, that I would dedicate myself to them, that I would care deeply for them. And they repay me because it's endless.
Dogs awaken me. They make me feel less bored, because they touch a lot of things.
No, I don't have a dog and if I had one, it would still be the same.
"We have never been human", Haraway, D. (2021). When species meet, La Découverte, 2021. @donnaharaway1944
I got into the dog and threw myself into it.
Now it's too late, I can't disengage.
So I'm moving on and dig in.
A dog is the sum of many things, including myself. In fact, when I am in the presence of a dog, I am no longer just me, I am with the dog, I am completed, fulfilled, if you will. Donna Haraway is a biologist, a philosopher who talks about this in particular. About bacteria, fungi, protists, she writes: "it is in the company of these little hosts at the same table that I become a human."
She talks about "companion species", rather than pets, which I think expresses much better what is happening. At least, what happens for me, in my body, when I am with a dog.
