Croatology, Vol. 1 No. 1, 2010.
Original scientific paper
The Zoostage as an Ethical Blunder, too: Examples from the Croatian Performance Art and Theatre Stage
Suzana Marjanić
orcid.org/0000-0002-6158-3006
; Institut za etnologiju i folkloristiku, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
On the path of designating animals as Object + Subject + Symbol in neoavant-
garde and post-avant-garde art ([uvakovi} 1999:387), an interpretation
is offered in the article of the utilisation of animals as subjects (e.g. Monta`stroj:
Timbuktu, 2008); symbols (e.g. the use of a donkey in a Dadaist show, Croatia’s
very first “happening”, They Are Coming of the high-school group Traveleri on
16 November 1922); as well as the slaughter of an animal (the animal as an
object) on the Croatian performance art scene (e.g. Sven Stilinovi}: Bloodthirsty
Geometry, 2000). Namely, from 1993 to 2001 Sven Stilinovi} performed six
variants of the performance Bloodthirsty Geometry, whilst the performance in
Dubrovnik (staged at the Lazareti in 2000) also featured the slaughter of a
lamb during a solar eclipse.
Keywords
performing animals; animal acting; ethics of animal acts; performance art; happening
Hrčak ID:
60210
URI
Publication date:
27.10.2010.
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