Performance Philosophy & Animals: Towards a Radical Equality

这个项目的目的是改变我们对表演、哲学和动物之间关系的理解。近年来，人们对表演和哲学之间互利互动的潜力产生了令人兴奋的兴趣——从著名哲学家和表演制作人之间的创新合作，到一个名为“表演哲学”的国际研究和创造性实践新领域的快速发展。这个项目表明，这个新兴领域的激进潜力在于它有能力挑战艺术和其他思想形式之间的等级制度，并在实现我们如何产生知识的更大平等方面发挥先锋作用，特别关注基于性能的研究可能有助于我们对非人类动物的理解。该项目建立在该研究员过去作为发展绩效哲学的核心人物的基础上，将通过将前沿绩效实践的见解和法国思想家弗朗索瓦·拉鲁埃尔的工作结合起来，帮助这个新领域实现其潜力。拉鲁埃尔现在被广泛认为是当今最重要的欧洲哲学家之一。他主张在所有形式的思想之间建立一种根本的平等——甚至不再把“智慧之爱”（philo-sophia）视为人类或智人（“智者”）的专属。因此，虽然关于平等的主流辩论通常集中在普遍人性的想法上，但这个项目将注意力转向非人类动物的思想，以便对平等本身的想法进行激进的扩展：动物是那些最像“我们”的“他者”，尽管不是“我们”。该项目旨在通过研究表演如何改变哲学，以及我们对表演和平等的概念如何被动物改变，来推进我们对表演、哲学和动物之间如何相互作用的思考，采用独特的“表演哲学”方法，将深入的哲学学术与两个核心案例研究与广受好评的表演公司合作结合起来：英国艺术委员会（Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation）、fever Sleep和一家颇具影响力的美国公司。每家每户都有一扇门，这两家公司都在开发有关动物和表演的项目。该奖学金将产生第一个专著，致力于性能哲学作为一个领域和方法论。在为期20个月的项目中，研究员将与fever Sleep合作，每间房子都有一扇门，创造2个新的表演。由萨里大学兽医学院主办，她将与fever Sleep合作制作一个新版本的“绵羊猪山羊”：这个项目通过邀请观众观看一系列人类表演者与绵羊、猪和山羊之间的即兴相遇，提出了关于人类如何看待动物与“真实”之间差异的问题。每个房子都有一扇门和4个当地的学生，她将共同创作“动物嘉年华”——一个用表演来研究物种间交流的想法的新作品。这两件新作品将为当地学校的孩子和更广泛的公众提供突破边界的艺术实践机会，通过表演来产生关于我们与动物关系本质的新知识——在这个生态危机时代，这是一个日益紧迫的问题。该项目在伦敦市中心ICA举行的一场大型公共活动中达到高潮，该活动在最近的艺术和哲学生产中找到了令人兴奋的新相似之处：共同的雄心是解决思想形式之间的等级制度和分配给不同认识方式的不平等价值。ICA的活动采用了一种创新的形式，结合了参与式研讨会、散步和聆听会议，将从广义上探讨“激进平等”的主题——探索当代压迫的深层纠缠，包括物种歧视、种族主义和性别歧视。

The aim of this project is to transform our understanding of the relationships between performance, philosophy and animals. Recent years have seen an exciting surge of interest in the potential for mutually beneficial interactions between performance and philosophy - from innovative collaborations between prominent philosophers and performance-makers, to the rapid growth of a new field of international research and creative practice called "Performance Philosophy". This project suggests that the radical potential of this emerging field lies in its capacity to challenge the hierarchies between the arts and other forms of thought and to act as a pioneer in achieving greater equality in how we produce knowledge, with a particular focus on what performance-based research might contribute to our understanding of nonhuman animals. Building on the Fellow's past role as a central figure in developing Performance Philosophy, this project will help the new field to realise its potential by bringing together insights from cutting-edge performance practice and the work of French thinker, François Laruelle - now widely acknowledged as one of the most significant European philosophers working today. He proposes a radical equality between all forms of thought - even to the extent of no longer seeing the 'love of wisdom' (philo-sophia) as exclusive to the human or Homo sapiens (the 'wise man'). Consequently, whilst mainstream debate around equality often focuses on the idea of a universal humanity, this project turns its attention to the thought of nonhuman animals in order to perform a radical extension of the idea of equality itself: animals being those 'others' most like 'us' who are nonetheless not 'us'. The project aims to advance our thinking about how performance, philosophy and animals interact by investigating how performance might transform philosophy and how our concepts of performance and equality might be transformed by the animal, using a unique 'performance philosophy' methodology combining in-depth philosophical scholarship with 2 core case study collaborations with the critically acclaimed performance companies: the Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation, Fevered Sleep and the influential US-based company, Every house has a door, both of whom are developing projects on animals and performance. The Fellowship will produce the first monograph dedicated to Performance Philosophy as a field and methodology. During the 20-month project, the Fellow will work with Fevered Sleep and Every house has a door to create 2 new performances. Hosted by the University of Surrey Vet School, she will collaborate with Fevered Sleep to produce a new version of "Sheep Pig Goat": a project that raises questions about the differences between how humans see animals and how they 'really' are by inviting audiences to witness a series of improvised encounters between human performers and sheep, pigs and goats. With Every house has a door and 4 local school children, she will co-create "Carnival of the Animals" - a new piece using performance to investigate the idea of interspecies communication. Both new works will provide local school children and wider publics with access to boundary-pushing arts practices using performance to produce new knowledge about the nature of our relationship to animals - an increasingly pressing issue in this age of ecological crisis. The project culminates in a major public event held at the ICA in central London which locates exciting new parallels in recent impulses in artistic and philosophical production: a shared ambition to address hierarchies between forms of thought and the unequal value assigned to different ways of knowing. Creating an innovative format combining participatory workshops, walks and listening sessions, the ICA event will address the theme of 'radical equality' in a broad sense - exploring the deep entanglement of contemporary oppressions including speciesism, racism and sexism.