Animal parade. Issue 2 (3rd April 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Collins, Christopher C.
• Is Part Of: Text and performance quarterly. Volume 39:Issue 2(2019)
• Page Start: 160
• Page End: 172
• Publication Date: 2019-04-03
• Subjects: Environmental performance -- posthumanism -- ritual -- nonhuman animals -- Anthropocene; Oral communication -- Periodicals; Literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; 302.224205
• DOI: 10.1080/10462937.2019.1595118
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1046-2937

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Animal Parade engages ethical questions about how we constitute relationships among human animals, nonhuman animals, and the environment. The script uses posthumanist theory, through aesthetic performance, to address how discursive structures produce, limit, or reinforce humanist assumptions that lead to environmental exploitation. In light of such concerns, the show challenges audiences to examine performative and nonlinguistic rituals of kin-making to address issues of the Anthropocene.