Becoming-with-Animal: The Ecofeminist Performance Practices of Charlotte Prodger, Grace Schwindt and Maja Smrekar

与动物相处：夏洛特·普罗杰、格蕾丝·施温特和玛雅·斯瑞卡的生态女性主义表演实践

• 批准号: 2454512
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Surrey
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2454512
• 关键词: Becoming; Animal; Ecofeminist; Performance; Practices

From Aristotle onwards in Western culture, women have been compared to animals as justification of their alleged inferiority. This is also the often intersecting case for both women and men of colour. This alignment is symptomatic of the relationship of domination instilled in part by classical traditions of Western culture including Aristotelian thought and Christianity. These traditions position white men at the top of a hierarchical structure of power, and all other animals including women and people of colour are therefore exploited by man. This system of domination also extends its destructive force to the environment. Seeing the world as simply a resource for man has led to the devastating effects of the climate crisis and vast declines in animal populations. In order to promote a process of 'healing' our planet, a transformative shift in the understanding of the relationship between human and Other is urgent, and performance practice offers an embodied opportunity to explore possibilities of reconfiguring these relationships. This research project aims to consider ways in which to cultivate a new ecofeminist understanding of the relationship between women and animals in the context of contemporary Western art practice. It asks how female performance practice in alliance with non-human animals can be conceived of as empowering and healing in times of environmental crisis. In order to examine this I will conduct field research, including rehearsal studies and interviews, into the practice of three contemporary female artists whose work engages with non-human animals and sits at the intersection between visual art and performance; Charlotte Prodger (1974, UK), Grace Schwindt (1979, Germany) and Maja Smrekar (1978, Slovenia). By observing the work of these artists through the lens of contemporary critical theory, I argue that their practice contributes to redefining the relationship between human and animal, male and female, dominant and "Other".

从亚里士多德开始，在西方文化中，女性就被比作动物，以此来证明她们所谓的低人一等。这也是有色人种女性和男性经常交叉的案例。这种结盟是统治关系的症状，部分是由西方文化的古典传统所灌输的，包括亚里士多德思想和基督教。这些传统将白人男性置于权力等级结构的顶端，因此，包括女性和有色人种在内的所有其他动物都受到男性的剥削。这种统治体系还将其破坏力扩展到环境。将世界简单地视为人类的资源，导致了气候危机和动物数量大幅下降的破坏性影响。为了促进“治愈”地球的过程，迫切需要对人类与他者之间关系的理解发生革命性的转变，而表演实践为探索重新配置这些关系的可能性提供了一个具体的机会。本研究项目旨在探讨如何在当代西方艺术实践的背景下，培养对女性与动物关系的新的生态女性主义理解。它询问女性与非人类动物合作的表演实践如何在环境危机时期被视为赋权和治愈。为了检验这一点，我将对三位当代女性艺术家的实践进行实地研究，包括排练研究和访谈，她们的作品涉及非人类动物，并处于视觉艺术和表演的交叉点；Charlotte Prodger（1974年，英国），Grace Schwindt（1979年，德国）和Maja Smrekar（1978年，斯洛文尼亚）。通过当代批判理论的视角观察这些艺术家的作品，我认为他们的实践有助于重新定义人与动物、男性与女性、支配者与“他者”之间的关系。