Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp
CAF gave curator Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp a grant for Interspecies Entanglements, an online film program at SLQS Gallery London (September 2025–February 2026) featuring work by contemporary artists — Abi Palmer, Carolina Caycedo, Esther van der Heijden & Nosh Neneh, Elsa Brès, Patty Chang with Astrida Neimanis & Aleksija Neimanis, and Elyla — each film accompanied by a newly commissioned text.
The program foregrounded artists working to resist anthropocentric relations with nonhuman animals and build more ethical ways of knowing other species. Florence writes: “So often in these contexts, animals are used as symbols and metaphors for human concerns. This project intends to uplift the work of contemporary artists who aim to resist these anthropocentric relations, and instead work care-fully to empower nonhuman animals through their ethically oriented practice.”
This project drew on Fitzgerald-Allsopp’s doctoral research into the ethics of encountering nonhuman animals through contemporary art and performance, activating it for a public audience and forging new collaborations between artists and writers.
Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp is a curator, writer, producer, and researcher in contemporary art and performance. Her writing has been commissioned by artists and galleries including SLQS (UK), Co-Prosperity (US), K-Gold Temporary Gallery (GR), and Smithson Projects (UK). Her book Interspecies Performance, co-edited with Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, was published in 2024 by Performance Research Books.
Florence’s interest in human-animal entanglements in performance is shared with performer and dancer Kittie Mae Morris, whose work explores how these entanglements endanger dolphins and ocean health, and with dancer and theatre artist Jonna Lehto, whose project Tails and Tailbones blends documentary and physical expression to explore the relationship between humans and wolves.
Photo of Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp (with her rat, Bow): Nic Kane
