74 research outputs found
The Grasshopper Cabaret:Performing philosophy at the limits of the human - Performance Philosophy Work, Sorbonne, University of Paris, France
No full textThe Grasshopper Cabaret, by Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo, performed at Theatre, Performance, Philosophy Conference, Sorbonne, University of Paris -Plenary session Biologies of Performance: Practice and Plasticit
The Grasshopper Cabaret:Performance Philosophy Work, Curtin University, Perth, Australia
No full textThe Grasshopper Cabaret, by Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo, performed at Speculative Ethologies, a symposium at Curtin University, Perth 1 – 3, December 201
The Grasshopper Cabaret:Performance Philosophy Work, Spacing Perform@nce, Rome & Fara In Sabina, Italy
No full textThe Grasshopper Cabaret, by Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo, performed at Spacing Perform@nce, performance and architecture symposium, Rome and Fara in Sabina, Jan 201
The Grasshopper Cabaret:Performance Philosophy Work presented by Liquid Architecture, West Space Gallery, VIC, Australia
No full textThe Grasshopper Cabaret, by Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo, presented by Liquid Architecture at 'Eavesdropping - Why Listen to Animals – Listening across the abyss of incomprehension?' a curated collection of performance works on animals and sound
The Grasshopper Cabaret:Performance Philosophy Work, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany
No full textThe Grasshopper Cabaret, by Undine Sellbach and Stephen Loo, performed at Testing Hearing: Science, Art, Industry, symposium and performance event at theMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, 4-5 Dec 2015
'Why should our bodies end with our skin?':Intergenerational longings, dislocations and waiting in BXBY (Exhibition Catalogue Essay)
No full text‘Spotted hand-fins, sprouting hair, the tow of the sea floor. Then air, wind. Limbs shaking, eyes caked in sand. A selkie is swept to a strange isle. Leaving her underwater people behind, she follows Cù-Sìth, the sea dog, fluffy fur, pointed ear, scampering across rocks, in search of land and a way to mate. The island is a vivarium, an artificial home for life. Here at the brink of the given world, old questions press afresh: What is reproduction, and where is it to be found?’Undine Sellbach is a philosopher, artist and Senior Lecturer at the University of Dundee. In this essay they respond to BXBY, by Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022 artist Soojin Chang
The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies
No full textCommissioned in 2013 in recognition of the growth across the Arts and Humanities in Animal Studies, this book was specifically directed to world-leading expertise that would position it as ‘cutting-edge’ rather than an introductory volume, demonstrating the range of disciplines and topics rethought by this new scholarship. As lead editor I sought out 2 further editors best placed to connect with the widest range of scholars (Broglio, based in Arizona; Sellbach then based in Sydney). It comprises 34 commissioned substantial chapters plus a co-written editorial introduction, plus an afterword and endorsement by two of the most influential scholars in the field, Wolfe and Haraway. All chapters were subject to rigorous editorial feedback and revision and in some cases external referees were also sought. All contributors are established scholars, in many cases, already highly prominent (e.g. Morton, Despret, Yusoff).
The introduction was not a summary but made its own intervention into the developments over the last 20 years in Animal Studies engaging work by Haraway, Wolfe and Derrida in particular by means of an analysis of the artwork on the cover by Olly and Suzi. This exposed a wider turn towards ‘ethics’ beyond strategic appeals to ‘rights’ and consequently both a greater investment in continental philosophy as well as new engagements with ethology and the more systemic question of the impact of climate change upon the living in general.
My chapter - ‘Voice’ – bridged ethological investigation into cetacean communication since the 1960’s, contemporary investigation into acoustic ecology and the philosophy of Derrida. While Derrida’s influential The Animal That Therefore I Am (2008) was prominent throughout the Companion, I drew on Of Grammatology (1976) to examine the ways in which Rousseau’s On The Origin of Languages (1781) may not be able to exclude nonhuman species after all. It thus contributes original research to more than one field.
The co-authored substantial introduction and chapter ('Voice') are both linked in this entry and listed as separate GRO entries
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