TEERINK TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza. Becoming (m)Other: Ethics of Performing with Animals. In Theatre Conference JAMU 2022: Touching Limits / Crossing Borders of Theatre. 2022.
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Original name Becoming (m)Other: Ethics of Performing with Animals
Authors TEERINK TURZÍKOVÁ, Tereza.
Edition Theatre Conference JAMU 2022: Touching Limits / Crossing Borders of Theatre, 2022.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study 60403 Performing arts studies
Country of publisher Czech Republic
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English performance art; Maja Smrekar; posthumanism
Tags International impact
Changed by Changed by: Mgr. Tereza Teerink Turzíková, učo 462729. Changed: 4/1/2023 09:54.
Abstract
With the development of animal rights and scientific knowledge, the role of non-human animals in the world is changing rapidly. While animals can be still seen as mere metaphors for human existence in some artworks, there are already artists actively working with animals as co-creators, performers, or audience. In my paper, I am going to analyze the performative project Hybrid Family (2016) by Slovenian artist Maja Smrekar and her two dogs. In this project, Smrekar co-habits a gallery space with her adoptive canine family and acts as their mother, inluding breastfeeding a puppy. Discussing Smrekar’s project, I will argue that including non-human animals in performative events may be seen from two opposing standpoints. It may either be seen as an example of speciest domination and animal abuse, OR it may become a potential for animal liberation and disruption of the anthropocentric ideal. Working with concepts from posthuman philosophy of Rosi Braidotti, I will explore the opposing views and problematize ideas such as human subjectivity and evolutionary superiority. In doing so, I would like to propose a possibility of conceptualizing performance as a phenomenon non-exclusive to human cognition and willpower.
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