Salazar Sutil, N orcid.org/0000-0001-8514-2873 (2018) Never been human I am bird: on the Shape of Love. Performance Research, 23 (4-5). pp. 100-106. ISSN 1352-8165
Abstract
This essay approaches the field of posthuman performance, focusing on the personification of love in the form of Eros. After focusing on the changing depictions of Erotic love across archaic and classical Greece, the essay then delves into the theatrical depiction of winged love in Aristophanes’ timeless comedy Birds. The author argues for the importance, in performance practice, of love as ethical praxis, suggesting that real erotic love is a fundamental energy driving performance. The critical takeaway of this essay is the need to perform a love that is not merely anthropomorphic or anthropocentric— a love of humans for humans— and the importance of practising more-than-human love, to tether living beings in an interspecies web of bonds and relations.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Performance Research. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Love, Eros, human, nonhuman, bird, anthropomorphism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 13 Aug 2018 09:50 |
Last Modified: | 29 Apr 2020 00:38 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13528165.2018.1514781 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:134433 |