MOTH 2025 Festival of Ideas - The Exhibit

The living world is stitched together by a diversity of beings whose rich and complex interactions define its everyday drama. Humans—despite their disproportionate capacity to modify the living world—comprise only a small part of this vast web of relations. Yet, anthropocentrism has been a hallmark of much of academia, legal practice, and culture for decades.

That, however, is changing. Practitioners and scholars from a wide range of disciplines—from law and philosophy to anthropology to design and well beyond—are pursuing efforts to bring the more-than-human world into the ambit of moral, legal, and social concern.

The More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) Festival of Ideas is dedicated to exploring this rich and rapidly evolving field. Unfolding over three days—from March 12th to 14th, 2025—at New York University School of Law, the MOTH Festival of Ideas will feature leading thinkers and doers working to advance the rights, interests, and well-being of nonhumans, humans, and the web of life that sustains us all. The Festival is organized by the MOTH Program at NYU Law.

The Exhibit at the MOTH Festival of Ideas will run from March 12th to March 14th in Greenberg Lounge, Vanderbilt Hall at New York University School of Law. 

The Exhibit will feature a range of artists whose work engages with questions essential to understanding and transforming our relationships with the more-than-human world.

Featured artwork by: 

• Elena Landinez
• Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi 
• Erin Yoshi 
• Ezequiel Zaidenwerg-Dib 
• Fátima Vélez
• Flora Wallace (ceramicist, ink maker and painter)
• Wio Gualinga (visual artist from the Kichwa Indigenous People of Sarayaku) 

The Exhibit is free and open to the public. Register here to attend the Exhibit. 

With creativity and interdisciplinarity at its heart, the Festival will include keynote talks, interviews, film screenings, book launches, poetry readings, concerts, and performances of various kinds. 

• The afternoons of each day of the MOTH 2025 Festival are open to the public, with tickets available for purchase here. 
• The Festival will conclude with a concert on March 14, 2025 by musician and field recordist Cosmo Sheldrake. Concert tickets are sold here.

Organizer: More-Than-Human Life (MOTH) project

Full event: MOTH 2025 Festival of Ideas

Host or Publisher Center for Human Rights and Global Justice