With his Cosmopolitan Chicken Project, an artistic crossbreeding project with chickens from around the globe, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen has been learning from the chicken for years. The project is a metaphor of how we, humans, treat this animal and subsequently our planet. His statement “We are the Chicken” has become increasingly evident the last few weeks of the covid-19 pandemic. After years of being confronted with compulsory fencing for his poultry, we are now quar