Publication details
Spolu-stávání-se zvířetem. Několik poznámek k současným neantropocentrickým tendencím.
| Title in English | Becoming-with an Animal. A Few Notes on Contemporary Nonanthropocentric Tendencies |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Sešit pro umění, teorii a příbuzné zóny |
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| Web | https://vvp.avu.cz/o-sesitu/ |
| Keywords | contemporary art; posthumanism; nonhuman animals; Czech artists; video; ethics |
| Description | The paper contributes to the current discussion concerning the position of nonhuman animals in contemporary art in the context of nonanthropocentric discourses. It is based on the conviction that changes have taken place in the field of natural sciences, social sciences and humanities in the last thirty years or so, with parallels in art. This Animal Turn concerns a more consistent understanding of animals as living, feeling and acting subjects and individuals, rather than objects for human use. The text focuses primarily on the premises of one nonanthropocentric area, namely (feminist) posthumanism. It presents several motifs from the thinking of two theoreticians, Donna Haraway and Rosi Braidotti, briefly introduces the foreign context and then mentions the specifics of the Czech environment and gives several concrete examples of artworks by artists Denisa Langrová and David Přílučík. The main aim of the article is to show how visual art and the theories intertwined with it deal with new ethical challenges regarding freedom, rights and treatment of animals. The selected artworks, created in the Czech Republic in the last few years and working with the medium of video, are meant to suggest tendencies about the need for a certain collaboration with animals, in this case with domesticated mammals. It shows the importance of creating an active interspecies and interdisciplinary dialogue between human and non-human beings in art and in the real world. |
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