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taxidermy art for dummies, performance, 2018

taxidermy art for dummies

Taxidermy Art for Dummies is a performative lecture that stages a step-by-step taxidermy demonstration without ever performing the actions it describes. Delivered in a pseudo-academic tone and activated through gestures rather than procedures, the work exposes the gap between explanation and doing as a site of theatrical tension. Addressing the animal whose fur appears as a prop, the performance reframes taxidermy as a relational encounter rather than a practice of preservation, questioning how knowledge, ritual, and classification choreograph human relations with more-than-human life.

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