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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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

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Laura Budriesi

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Vita e Pensiero

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02-2022

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10.26350/001200_000137

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0392-8667 (stampa) | 1827-7969 (digitale)

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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.