Being human in a more-than-human world: art as relationship/catalyst of relationships

In problematizing instances of econtological rethinking of the human and of/in the world, expressed by voices in contemporary thought, in various respects isomorphic, such as those of Posthumanism and Michel Serres, my inquiry proposes a reading of art as a relation/catalyst of relations, that is, as a (re)activation of positive relations of the human with and for a world which is increasingly revealing itself as hyper-complex, that is, more-than-human, in the continuity/inseparability of nature and culture. Taking as my toolbox the Serresian ideas on art practices as not (only) human forms of expression and the “isomorphic” posthumanist positions on nonhuman agency, I then highlight the “more-than-representative” scope of art, and the fact that artistic practices are response-able actions. Hence, being human, in the perspective of artistic cooperation with nonhuman actors, emerges as being co-agents and of course co-owners.