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.
It combines Marxist analysis with feminist and posthumanist methodology to analyse the relation between ‘societal dressage’ and ‘bodily animality’ that humans and animals share. Within this original theoretical framework, the book develops the concept of ‘dressaged animality’ as a mode of critique to analyse the social and political function of interdisciplinary forms of ‘contemporary…
26.08.2024, EXHIBITION and PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME „Begin Suddenly in Splendour. ROSE ENGLISH: Performance, Presence, Spectacle“, co-curated by Lisa Moravec
The Museum der Moderne Salzburg is presenting the first comprehensive exhibition in the German-speaking world of works by the British artist Rose English. Born in 1950 in Hereford, English developed her unique working methods in the UK in the midst of the conceptual art, dance and feminist scenes of the 1970s. Today, she is one of the most influential performance artists. Her extraordinary, interdisciplinary oeuvre combines elements of theater, circus, variety and opera in order to explore themes of gender politics, the identity of the performer and the metaphysics of presence—the very nature of being a performer.
This exhibition will use multimedia installations to provide an insight…
14.08.2024, LUISE MARCHAND: Liquid Company
LUISE MARCHAND
Liquid Company
Aus dem Wiener Stadtbild sind sie nicht mehr wegzudenken, die sogenannten „Rider“: Auf Fahrrädern, E-Scootern oder Motorollern, in bunten Jacken und mit quadratischen Rucksäcken, liefern sie innerhalb von Minuten fertige Gerichte, Lebensmittel oder Medikamente an unsere Haustür. Sie sind Sinnbild für eine Zeit, in der traditionelle Arbeitsstrukturen einem Wandel unterworfen sind und die durch Digitalisierung, Globalisierung und den Aufstieg neuer Arbeitsmodelle wie Freelancing, Crowdworking und Plattformökonomie geprägt ist.
Für die Arbeit Liquid Company begleitet Luise Marchand ebenjene Gig-Worker und lädt zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit den…
