Man and animal in culture context: experience of apprehension (conferences, publications, exhibitions)
The article represents an overview of conferences, publications and exhibitions over the last few years devoted to the problem of animal representation in culture in general and in Russian culture in particular. The general scope of problems in contemporary researches and exhibition projects includes the topic of animals in cultural space of big cities, changes of their functions in the medium of urban culture. The most important is the topic of an animal being “different”, being a “mirror” into which a man is looking at himself to self-actualize. Another tramline is zoosemiotics – studying of animal symbolics. The actual topics are: “Animals and religion”, “Animalistics in contemporary art”, “Ethical problems in relations of man and animal”. So these topics reflect the real processes undergoing in the contemporary culture and still to be existed in historical retrospective.