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Towards a Critical Posthuman Aesthetic: A Performance-Philosophical Research into the Configuration of Posthuman Figures on the Contemporary Stage of Kris Verdonck
Code
3F022113
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
    • Philosophy
    • Ethics
    • Other philosophy, ethics and religious studies not elsewhere classified
    • Art studies and sciences
    • Theatre and performance
Keywords
agency human enhancement posthumanism Kris Verdonck Giorgio Agamben philosophical turn object figures Philosophy Art Theatre and performing arts
 
Project description
 

contemporary performing arts reflect on posthumanism and how they can communicate a critique of humanism. An analysis of Belgian artist Kris Verdonck’s performances, focussing on three aspects of posthumanism - the dehumanized figure, dematerialized performers, acting objects and human enhacement. Methodologically this research is inscribed in the philosophical turn in theatre and performance studies.