Description
Against a recent World Wildlife Fund report, claiming that by 2020 almost two thirds of animal species in the world will be extinct, Turning Animal raises a number of urgent critical questions concerning the timeless problem of categorizing the human in opposition to the animal. Drawing on a recent turn within the posthumanities that problematizes the humanist distinction of the animal as ‘other’, this issue considers how performance studies has embraced the possibilities of ‘animal becoming’, in a conceptual sense as well as the act of ‘turning animal’ in a more material and performative sense. With contributions coming from a variety of critical perspectives, as well as a wide array of geographic and species-specific contexts, this issue urges us to consider how, in the face of a ‘sixth mass extinction’, our condition as human earthling is ecologically bound to earthly life of all shapes and sizes.
Jism for Schism : Turning the animal on
Nicolas Salazar Sutil
Humanimality
Agata Kawa
Passing Strange : Becoming Daimon
Anthony Kubiak
Wear Qisi-Become Seal
Kevin O’Connor, Duskin Drum, Paulette Metuq
It is a Sad Penguin
Duskin Drum
Turning Homo Apis : From specio-mimetic performance to bio-concrete form
Michael Bianco
Be More Dog : The human–canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
Justyna Wlodarczyk
Eyes to See Nobody
Ruth Gibson
Girls ’R’ Pets : The power of Kawaii Shôjo (Cute Girl) and Pet/Girl performance
Katherine Mezur
Goats, Badgers and Other Beasts : Turning animal and performing the limits of the human
Lourdes Orozco, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
Becoming with Sheep – and with multiple others
Charlotte Grum
‘We keep our biologies intimate’ : Zoedramatics in bio/interspecies performance
Eve Katsouraki
Species-beings, Human Animals and New Neighbours : Non-human and inhuman in contemporary performance
Esa Kirkkopelto
How to Become an Animal DANCING
Martin Nachbar
As if Not Human : Practising boredom in the arts
Hanne Seitz
The Post-Human Masquerade of Diseased Meat : Performing zoonosis in Deborah Levy’s Diary of a Steak
Rosemary Deller
In/valuable Hare’s Blood : Performing with living relics of animals
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker
Only Cyborgs and Cockroaches
Aneta Stojnić
