{"id":4002,"date":"2017-06-29T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T10:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/?post_type=product&p=4002"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:20:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:20:41","slug":"22-2-turning-animal","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/thecpr.org.uk\/product\/22-2-turning-animal\/","title":{"rendered":"22.2 Turning Animal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Against a recent World Wildlife Fund report, claiming that by 2020 almost two thirds of animal species in the world will be extinct,\u00a0Turning Animal<\/em>\u00a0raises 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\u00a0distinction of the animal as \u2018other\u2019, this issue considers how performance studies has embraced the possibilities of \u2018animal becoming\u2019, in a conceptual sense as well as the act of \u2018turning animal\u2019 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 \u2018sixth mass extinction\u2019, our condition as human earthling is ecologically bound to earthly life of all shapes and sizes.<\/p>\n

Jism for Schism\u2009: Turning the animal on
\nNicolas Salazar Sutil<\/p>\n

Humanimality
\nAgata Kawa<\/p>\n

Passing Strange\u2009: Becoming Daimon
\nAnthony Kubiak<\/p>\n

Wear Qisi-Become Seal
\nKevin O’Connor, Duskin Drum, Paulette Metuq<\/p>\n

It is a Sad Penguin
\nDuskin Drum<\/p>\n

Turning Homo Apis\u2009: From specio-mimetic performance to bio-concrete form
\nMichael Bianco<\/p>\n

Be More Dog\u2009: The human\u2013canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
\nJustyna Wlodarczyk<\/p>\n

Eyes to See Nobody
\nRuth Gibson<\/p>\n

Girls \u2019R\u2019 Pets\u2009: The power of Kawaii Sh\u00f4jo (Cute Girl) and Pet\/Girl performance
\nKatherine Mezur<\/p>\n

Goats, Badgers and Other Beasts\u2009: Turning animal and performing the limits of the human
\nLourdes Orozco, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck<\/p>\n

Becoming with Sheep \u2013 and with multiple others
\nCharlotte Grum<\/p>\n

\u2018We keep our biologies intimate\u2019 : Zoedramatics in bio\/interspecies performance
\nEve Katsouraki<\/p>\n

Species-beings, Human Animals and New Neighbours\u2009: Non-human and inhuman in contemporary performance
\nEsa Kirkkopelto<\/p>\n

How to Become an Animal DANCING
\nMartin Nachbar<\/p>\n

As if Not Human\u2009: Practising boredom in the arts
\nHanne Seitz<\/p>\n

The Post-Human Masquerade of Diseased Meat\u2009: Performing zoonosis in Deborah Levy\u2019s Diary of a Steak
\nRosemary Deller<\/p>\n

In\/valuable Hare\u2019s Blood\u2009: Performing with living relics of animals
\nKlaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker<\/p>\n

Only Cyborgs and Cockroaches
\nAneta Stojni\u0107<\/p>\n\n\n