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T he term ‘icon’ implies an image captured, a static visual reference, a category ‘humanness’. Yet the aim of this paper is to suggest that while practices of visualism underscore complex politics of identity construction in the West, vision itself is never static, and that the meaning of the animal object is multi-layered, ambiguous and sometimes contradictory. Further, I argue that practices of looking exist in tandem with an embodied apprehension of objects being-seen; through examining audience responses to the spectacle of gorillas in cages in a city zoo. I suggest that while animal bodies are inscribed by a politics of vision, the apprehension of animals and animality is sensory as well as visually symbolic, affective as well as an effect of discursive fields, and that iconographies may be intercorporeal as well as indexical.

Journeys to the Urban Exotic: Embodiment and the Zoo-Going Gaze