Animàlia o les extensions de la subjectivitat: Possibilitats d’una mirada no antropocèntrica en la interpretació del subjecte de la cultura

• Autores: Margalida Pons Jaume
• Localización: Catalan Review: international journal of Catalan culture, ISSN 0213-5949, Vol. 32, 2018 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Selected proceedings of the 16th Colloquium of the North American Catalan Society, Indiana University, Bloomington / Edgar Illas (ed. lit.)), págs. 3-21
• Idioma: catalán
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  • In the last few decades, cultural and literary studies have echoed the impact of what Harriet Ritvo calls “the animal turn.” In analyzing the presence of animals in creative works, the interdisciplinary field of Animal Studies has problematized dichotomies such as subject/object, culture/nature or animated/inanimate, thus questioning the anthropocentric bias in the reading of culture. Taking this theoretical framework as a starting point, this article examines the role of animals in some contemporary Catalan performative creations. Although the artistic representations of animals have been most frequently interpreted as metaphors for human values and behavior (as happens in fables, bestiaries and allegoric fiction), I propose to explore here the animal’s capacity for agency and the animal as subject. If the non-human animal is an incarnation that shares traits such as corporeity and instinct with human beings, it can also raise questions about the limits of humanness and widen the traditional understanding of creative subjectivity. Taking as case-studies some creations in the field of action art, this paper examines the possibility of reading Catalan cultural production from an extended notion of subjectivity