Dressaged Animality

Auteur

Lisa Moravec is an Art Historian-Performance Scholar, Writer, Lecturer, Curator, Art Critic, and Body Practitioner. She is working on intersections of the performing and visual arts.

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The book applies a productive interdisciplinary lens of art history, performance, and animal studies for approaching political economy issues, critiquing anthropomorphic worldviews, and provoking thoughts around animal and human nature that spark impulses for an innovative performance aesthetics and ethics.

Contenu

1. Theorising Dressage 2. Performance Histories: The Mechanisms of Human and Animal Dressage 3. The Critique of Dressage: Dancing Horses 4. The Ethics of Dressage: Non-Acting Dressage Acts 5. The Technology of Dressage: Animal Machines 6. Conclusion: Dressaged Animalities: Towards HumanAnimal Forms of Bodily Realism