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E-book Dressaged Animality : Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance

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Humans increasingly perform like dressaged animals since the second half of the twentieth century. As it seems impossible to live, move, and work to-gether without harming other animals under competitive capitalism, there has been a trend to increasingly include animals—whether human imita-tions, real, or mediated—in the visual and performing arts since the late 1960s. This foregrounding of the entanglement between human and animal forms of animality in performance has coincided with the emergence of ar-tistic performance practices that blur existing modes and histories of dance, theatre, vaudeville, circus, visual performance art, and competitive sports.This book delineates this phenomenon by critically theorising and his-torically contextualising a selection of contemporary artistic practices that emerged in the realms of both, in the experimental visual arts and technique-based performing arts. I focus on more than 15 widely underex-plored contemporary performances by renowned, as well as lesser known British (Rose English, Mark Wallinger), American (Mike Kelley/Kate Foley, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman, Diana Thater), and Euro-pean artists (Joseph Beuys, Anne Imhof, Tamara Grcic, Judith Hopf, Barta-bas, Anna Källblad/Helena Byström) that came about within the contexts of the visual and performing arts from the late 1960s until the late 2010s.Rooted in close visual and performance analyses, I work through the following questions: What insights do these artistic performances provide into the societal relation of humans and animals? How do artists and ani-mals perform their dressage in political economy, and what role does bod-ily animality play in critical artistic performance practices? As the works with human and non-human animals by these artists demonstrate that they are not only critical of societal dressage but also of their artistic self-dressage, the book provides a performance theory which explores how artistic performance can take up a critique of dressage in the capitalist system, representing forms of artistic resilience.While various types of artistic practice have been framed as forms of critique (for example protest art, institutional critique in the visual arts, social practice, or interventionist strategies), existing studies have tended to focus either on the political and social function of art and performance—without taking bodily (human and animal) animality or real animals into consideration—or they have applied a phenomenological approach, to pri-marily deal with questions focused on performances in which real animals are used. This interdisciplinary book brings these two arts-based discourses together and expands them with animal studies, a growing academic field that is preoccupied with how ethical issues—that bring forth political action—enable critical analysis of how domesticated animals (living beings like humans) are treated and categorised in the political economy. Based on a comparative analysis of human-animal dressage and animality, the book situates the so-called ‘animal question’ into a wider political economy con-text, focused on artistic and cultural forms of performance.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

301 MOR d

Penerbit

London : Taylor & Francis., 2024

Deskripsi Fisik

243 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003439639

Klasifikasi

301

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Sociology and Anthropology, Society

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