Posthumanism in Practice by Christine Daigle;Matthew Hayler;

Author:Christine Daigle;Matthew Hayler;
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781350293823
Publisher: Bloomsbury UK
Published: 2022-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Vulnerability as virtuosity

The exercises described in this chapter were motivated by the aspiration to explore how my circus practice is transformed when it is influenced by posthumanist ideas. The common aims of these processes were to challenge the human–non-human dichotomy and to destabilize the idea of human exceptionalism in my circus practices. The intent was to explore the opportunities of, and develop strategies and methods for, a posthumanist circus in practice.

Figure 7.7 Photo series STUDIO 16 – COVID-19, Stockholm, Sweden, June 2020. Credit Einar Kling Odencrants. Courtesy Marie-Andrée Robitaille.

The decrease of speed has been an essential aspect in each of the exercises described in this chapter. In the studio working with foils and bubbles, and in the performance of ‘Multiverse’, I moved at an insistent slow pace. To create the attuning conditions for listening and slowing down I have developed and used pacing, spacing, oscillating, and phasing techniques. With the emerging methods of circumambulation, monstering, un-taming, sensing, and dislocating, and the evolving ‘Circle as Methodology’, I investigated the potential of shifting spatial and temporal dynamics for revising my circus practices from less dominating postures. These tactics helped me defamiliarize from the usual, normative and standardized modes of production and creation of my circus practices; opening up the field of possibilities for alternative reality forming.

Slowing down means becoming capable of learning again, becoming acquainted with things again, reweaving the bounds of interdependency. It means thinking and imagining, and in the process creating relationships with others that are not those of capture. (Stengers 2018)

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