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Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices
Art: Call for Contributions
Datum: 30.05.2012
Expressions of interest are invited from scholars in areas of theatre and performance studies and animal studies to contribute to an edited volume on the topic:
Performing Animality: Animals in Performance Practices
The animal has been a constant driving force of performance as performer, as thematic or symbolic inspiration, and as an evocation of the human condition. In contemporary performance practice the animal is both a literal presence onstage in, for example, the work of Socìetas Rafaello Sanzio (Italy), Rachel Rosenthal (US), Jan Fabre (Flanders), Théàtre Zingaro (France), Rodrigo García (Argentina), Oleg Kulik (Russia), Catherine Bell (Australia), and is represented metaphorically through ideas and images, sounds, smells and bodily choreographies in the work of Marcus Coates (UK), Malpelo (Spain), Nicolas Primat (France) and Rachel Mayeri (US).
Performing Animality places the animal centrally as a point of inquiry in this field while engaging in productive dialogue with the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies in order to revise and develop explorations on the place of the animal within the theatrical economy, animal acting, and the animal as a location for ‘otherness’.
Suggested questions which chapters might address include:
• The role of animals in theatre and performance: from live presence to representation.
• Financial and labor considerations is brought up by the presence of animals in theatre and performance contexts.
• The animal and the law: legal and health and safety issues in relation to animals in performance contexts.
• The animal's challenge to theatre's representational strategies.
• Cultural specificities that affect the presence and treatment of animals in performance contexts.
• Human-animal encounters: Human/Animal subjectivity in performance contexts.
• Ethical questions surrounding the presence of animals in performance.
• Animal performers: training.
• Animals and technology.
• Historical approaches to animals in performance.
Other ideas for chapters might also be discussed with the editors.
Abstracts of 200-300 words together with brief biographies should be sent to:
Lourdes Orozco at l.orozco@leeds.ac.uk and Jennifer Parker-Starbuck at j.parker-starbuck@roehampton.ac.uk
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: 30 May 2012.
Diese Nachricht wurde redaktionell betreut von Stefanie Kuhn.
URL zur Zitation: http://www.theaterforschung.de/date.php4?ID=2588
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