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Becoming Audible - Sounding Animality in Performance (Hardcover)
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Becoming Audible - Sounding Animality in Performance (Hardcover)
Series: Animalibus
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Becoming Audible explores the phenomenon of human and animal
acoustic entanglements in art and performance practices. Focusing
on the work of artists who get into the spaces between species,
Austin McQuinn discovers that sounding animality secures a vital
connection to the creatural. To frame his analysis, McQuinn employs
Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of becoming-animal,
Donna Haraway's definitions of multispecies becoming-with, and
Mladen Dolar's ideas of voice-as-object. McQuinn considers birdsong
in the work of Beatrice Harrison, Olivier Messiaen, Celeste
Boursier-Mougenot, Daniela Cattivelli, and Marcus Coates; the voice
of the canine as a sacrificial lab animal in the operatic work of
Alexander Raskatov; hierarchies of vocalization in human-simian
cultural coevolution in theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka and
Eugene O'Neill; and the acoustic exchanges among hybrid
human-animal creations in Harrison Birtwistle's opera The Minotaur.
Inspired by the operatic voice and drawing from work in art and
performance studies, animal studies, zooarchaeology, social and
cultural anthropology, and philosophy, McQuinn demonstrates that
sounding animality in performance resonates "through the labyrinths
of the cultural and the creatural," not only across species but
also beyond the limits of the human. Timely and provocative, this
volume outlines new methods of unsettling human exceptionalism
during a period of urgent reevaluation of interspecies relations.
Students and scholars of human-animal studies, performance studies,
and art historians working at the nexus of human and animal will
find McQuinn's book enlightening and edifying.
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