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Call for papers
Dancing goose: moving with and moving like animals
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5458
Convenor
* Veronique Servais (University of Liège)
Short Abstract
The panel would like to explore how body movements (moving together and moving like) can affect the perception and the process of knowing animals and their mind. The question might be addressed with captive, free, domesticated or trained animals, from a scientific or an artistic point of view.
Long Abstract
Anthropologists have documented the importance of mimicry and imitation of animals' body movements in tracking and hunting traditions. It seems that "becoming animal" is a very significant part of the hunting practice across the world. Beyond that, one could argue that the perception of an animal's living and moving body does something to the human observer. In a Gibsonian perspective, the result of perception is not a percept but the transformation of the perceiver. In this panel, we would like to explore in detail what happens to the perception of animals when people move with and/or move like animals- these might be wild, free, captive, trained or domestic animals. What happens when people create with animals a shared structure of action which consist of kinetic structures, i.e. patterns of movement that are jointly built? What kind of self emerges from these interactions and how does it change the way of perceiving the animals and their mind? Does the imitation of animal movements promote empathy or make the perception more acute? Does such a kinetic engagement with an animal affect the perceived affordances? Could the scientific study of animals benefit from this kind of approach, and how would the activity of science be changed, if the researcher accepted to be transformed by his/her animal subject? For example, would it help to better figure out the perceptual world of the animal? The panel will welcome any contribution to this line of inquiry, from ethnographic descriptions to anthropological or epistemological analysis; but most of all, the convenors would be pleased to welcome artists, dancers or plastic artist, who would be interested in sharing their practice of a kind of another of "becoming animal".
The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683.
Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683.
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