Animal Drag

Power, politics and the performance of animality

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Animal Drag asserts that performing animality is a political act, capable of de-stabilising humanism and constructs of othering, especially species. The volume trots across and crawls through human-animal studies, posthumanism, theories of drag and thus queer theories of performance and adornment too, to argue that critical and conscious acts of animality challenge the audience to reconsider societal shapings of the nonhuman and the human-animal divide. Historically, those othered have also been considered nonhuman. In doing so, Animal Drag also squawks with many other “minority” studies that have worked with Critical Animal Studies as part of illuminating problematic binaries, but through a series of single acts that disrupt these through the one performance. Together, it weaves a wider discourse on the social and material semiotics of “doing human”, to hopefully generate a wider web of care.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-01
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526184399

Utforska kategorier

Övriga konstformer inom Kultur
Övrig scenkonst inom Kultur
Sociala och etiska frågor inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Nicola McCartney is an artist and educator, and Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies on the Fashion, Jewellery and Textiles programmes at Central Saint Martins. She also works across Fine Art and for external institutions.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: The critical and conscious performance of animality – Nicola McCartneyPart I Retrospective Animal Drag1 Reciprocity in motion, nonhuman and material agencies across contemporary and historical contact zones – Donatella Barbieri and Denise Ackerl2 Journey to the end of the night: Abjection, narcissism and Animal Drag in Boldini’s portraits of Luisa Casati – Penelope WicksonPart II Contemporary critiques3 Mimetic Animal Drag as Ecological Crisis Ritual: Hanna Tuulikki’s Deer Dancer (2019) – Zaynah Akeel4 Tail envy: Rethinking psychoanalytic models of desire through Marianna Simnett’s The Severed Tail (2022) – Elisabetta GarlettiPart III Power in playing5 Rhinos, raccoons, and salmon: The feminist-queer theatre creation of Animacy Theatre Collective – Alexandra Simpson and Morgan Brie Johnson6 Love, lipstick and liberation: Artistic activism as a drag cow – Daniel Hellman and Soya the Cow7 Animalesque drag: Ontopolitics of intensity in Andrea Palašti’s Fitness for Unlikely Species (2022–) – Andrija FilipovicPart IV Dressing up and stripping down8 Unbridled: Dragging nudity in Ann Oren’s Piaffe (2022) – Killian O’Dwyer9 Myasthenia Gravis and Madame Web: Weaving my supercrip disease, spiders and popular culture – Nicola McCartney