You May Now Kiss the Dog
Yuxi Pan
@yuxi_pan_0330
This project imagines a covenant ceremony between a human and a dog, constructed through the liturgical structure of a Christian wedding. Emerging from field research within London’s pet-related industries and communities, it extends anthropomorphism into a speculative mode of intimacy across species. Through the unfolding of this imagined covenant ceremony, the project reveals an emergent social imagination in which human–animal relationships are continuously rewritten through culture, emotion, and everyday practice. Religion becomes a symbolic space—an invitation for audiences to sense, reflect upon, or reimagine the connections and relationships between human and non-human lives.