Event overview
The Centre for Postcolonial Studies hosts Dr Moravec discussing her upcoming book, "Dressaged Animality: Human and Animal Actors in Contemporary Performance" (Routledge)
In her talk, Dr Moravec will share her interdisciplinary and politically motivated approach to critically examining 'societal dressage' and the significance of 'bodily animality'—for both humans and animals—in contemporary performance across various disciplines.
Looking through a lens of Marxist analysis combined with feminist and posthumanist approaches, her book investigates the relation between ‘societal dressage’ and ‘bodily animality’ that humans and animals share. It presents the concept of ‘dressaged animality’ as a mode of critique to analyse the social and political function of interdisciplinary forms of ‘contemporary performances.’
Dr. Lisa Moravec is an art historian specialising in interdisciplinary forms of contemporary performance. She teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She has worked at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Vienna, the Technical University of Vienna, Kingston School of Art, and Royal Holloway (University of London). Her research combines Marxist analysis with posthumanist and intersectional gender studies, focusing on the connections between humans, machines, and animals. She is currently working on her second book, which explores the performance of critique and the relationship between artificial intelligence, bodily intelligence, and posthumanist aesthetics.
More information about the book can be found here:
This event is hosted by the Centre for Postcolonial Studies
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Nov 2024 | 4:30pm - 6:30pm |
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