Visual art and its fascination with animals (in the form of pets, zoo animals, farm animals, stuffed animals, along with projections of wildness) prepare the ground to reflect on the nature of sex, hunger, and affection, as well as on family and gender relations, socialization and domestication, and, not least, on the enduring impact of colonial history. Texts: Jack Halberstam, Eva Hayward, Johanna Hedva, Bhanu Kapil, Joni Murphy, Kathryn Scanlan, Kalpana Rahita Seshadri, Kerstin Stakemeier, Oxana Timofeeva, Tanya Zamirovskaya und Texten von Manuela Ammer, Ulrike Müller und Jörg Wolfert.