Abstract
ABSTRACT This contribution aims to enrich the discussions addressed in this special issue by exploring how performative and theatrical interventions in a museum or exhibition context help to tackle the fraught relationship between mankind and nature. Three case studies are put to the fore to explore how such interventions can help to think about the role of humans in the struggle, suffering and, in some cases, extinction of flora and fauna. Points of departure for this reflection are Zoological Institute for Recently Extinct Species by Jozef Wouters, Chanelle Adams’ “Ghost Tour”-practice and The Nature Museum by Robert Zhao Renhui and his fictional Institute of Critical Zoologists. Drawing on these case studies, this text is particularly interested in how these artists adopt and adapt the museum’s scenography and the conventional practice of the tour guide and turn it into a performative and/or theatrical strategy to unmask the power mechanisms responsible for the anthropocentric view on the history of nature.
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