Museum of Non-Human Ethics is the name of video work and sculptural installation. This doubled signification results in a coded reference riddle. Within a sculptural installation, objects appear as artifacts from the near future, which humanity is currently constructing. An avatar welcomes you both into a real and digital context, leaving open the question of what space we are confronted to, and what it means to preserve materiality in the future. Translated into their digital versions in the film, the sculptures’ materiality and empirical data are preserved. They become part of the image circulation, bypassing physical distance, concerning the body in presence. The museum, as proposed, is placing us in a speculative scenario in which ethics are assigned to non-human, human-created entities. Whether or not they possess rights, is not a question of 2084, but of today.
It is problematic to understand the idea of claiming responsibility of non-human entities since we don’t assign consciousness to those. Even not being fully described and explained, consciousness has been never assigned to animals either. This anthropocentric belief hence becomes the premise of considering rights and ethics intrinsic only to human. The question remains – how we understand those principles in time of accelerated change and redefinition of what it means to be human today?