Performare la natura: dal dispositivo rappresentazionale al ‘teatro delle specie’. Tra pratica e teoria in Donna Haraway, Una Chaudhuri e Marta Cuscunà

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journal	COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI
issue	COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI - 2021 - 3. Theatres and Politics Today Lights and Shadows of a Long Relationship
title	Performare la natura: dal dispositivo rappresentazionale al ‘teatro delle specie’. Tra pratica e teoria in Donna Haraway, Una Chaudhuri e Marta Cuscunà Performing Nature: From Zoo Perspective to the Theatre of Species. Between Practice and Theory in Donna Haraway, Una Chaudhuri and Marta Cuscunà
Author	Laura Budriesi
Publisher	Vita e Pensiero
format	Article \| Pdf
online since	02-2022
doi	10.26350/001200_000137
issn	0392-8667 (print) \| 1827-7969 (digital)
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In March 2020, people were confined inside their homes, and wild animals regained urban spaces. But the insufficient problematization of the paradox, made these images “unthinkable”. In this delicate historical moment the human/non-human relationship seems to need a supplement of reflection. The author deals with the fruitful intertwining between Performance Studies and Animal Studies, defining it ‒ in accordance with Laura Cull – “Animal Performance Studies”. In this context, the performative dimension can be particularly fruitful for Animal Studies, defined as It is by some characteristics: embodiment, presence, process, event ‒ shared with non-humans; it can be a terrain for exploring new relational modes between different species capable of going beyond the reductive, logocentric definition of language that would exclude other species from the start. The choices of reference for theories and practices ‒ Haraway, Chaudhuri and Cuscunà ‒ combine transfeminist and antispecist theoretical reflection, performance and political activism. The performative project of Marta Cuscunà ‒ Earthbound ‒ is analyzed in the last part of this writing and becomes a concrete example of the ‘theater of species’ suggested by Una Chaudhuri. keywords Performance; animal performance studies; ‘teatro delle specie’. Author biography Università di Bologna ‒ laura.budriesi@unibo.it Enter a comment for Performare la natura: dal dispositivo rappresentazionale al ‘teatro delle specie’. Tra pratica e teoria in Donna Haraway, Una Chaudhuri e Marta Cuscunà

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In March 2020, people were confined inside their homes, and wild animals regained urban spaces. But the insufficient problematization of the paradox, made these images “unthinkable”. In this delicate historical moment the human/non-human relationship seems to need a supplement of reflection. The author deals with the fruitful intertwining between Performance Studies and Animal Studies, defining it ‒ in accordance with Laura Cull – “Animal Performance Studies”. In this context, the performative dimension can be particularly fruitful for Animal Studies, defined as It is by some characteristics: embodiment, presence, process, event ‒ shared with non-humans; it can be a terrain for exploring new relational modes between different species capable of going beyond the reductive, logocentric definition of language that would exclude other species from the start. The choices of reference for theories and practices ‒ Haraway, Chaudhuri and Cuscunà ‒ combine transfeminist and antispecist theoretical reflection, performance and political activism. The performative project of Marta Cuscunà ‒ Earthbound ‒ is analyzed in the last part of this writing and becomes a concrete example of the ‘theater of species’ suggested by Una Chaudhuri.