Performance Research Volume 22 Issue 2
Turning Animal
Issue editors: Nicolas Salazar Sutil
ISSN: 1352-8165 (2017) 22:2
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
Nicolás Salazar Sutil
pp. 1 - 7
Humanimality
Agata Kawa
pp. 8 - 12
Passing Strange : Becoming Daimon
Anthony Kubiak
pp. 13 - 19
Wear Qisi-Become Seal
Kevin O'Connor, Duskin Drum, Paulette Metuq
pp. 20 - 26
It is a Sad Penguin
Duskin Drum
pp. 27 - 30
Turning Homo Apis : From specio-mimetic performance to bio-concrete form
Michael Bianco
pp. 31 - 39
Be More Dog : The human–canine relationship in contemporary dog-training methodologies
Justyna Wlodarczyk
pp. 40 - 47
Eyes to See Nobody
Ruth Gibson
pp. 48 - 53
Girls ’R’ Pets : The power of Kawaii Shôjo (Cute Girl) and Pet/Girl performance
Katherine Mezur
pp. 54 - 62
Goats, Badgers and Other Beasts : Turning animal and performing the limits of the human
Lourdes Orozco, Jennifer Parker-Starbuck
pp. 63 - 68
Becoming with Sheep – and with multiple others
Charlotte Grum
pp. 69 - 73
‘We keep our biologies intimate’ : Zoedramatics in bio/interspecies performance
Eve Katsouraki
pp. 74 - 86
Species-beings, Human Animals and New Neighbours : Non-human and inhuman in contemporary performance
Esa Kirkkopelto
pp. 87 - 96
How to Become an Animal DANCING
Martin Nachbar
pp. 97 - 97
As if Not Human : Practising boredom in the arts
Hanne Seitz
pp. 98 - 106
The Post-Human Masquerade of Diseased Meat : Performing zoonosis in Deborah Levy’s Diary of a Steak
Rosemary Deller
pp. 107 - 114
In/valuable Hare’s Blood : Performing with living relics of animals
Klaus Spiess, Lucie Strecker
pp. 115 - 122
Only Cyborgs and Cockroaches
Aneta Stojnić
pp. 123 - 128
Notes on Contributors
pp. 129 - 130
