Sfârșitul epocii excepționalismului uman în spectacolul live
The End of the Age of Human Exceptionalism in Live Performance

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the performances by Krõõt Juurak și Alex Bailey, named performances for pets, performances for cats and dogs. The difference from other performances labeled as performances for animals or interspecies performances consists not only in the way the two artists conceive their performances, but also in the way they approach the notion of audience. Designed and performed exclusively for dogs or cats, these shows question the supremacy of the Anthropocene and human exceptionalism in live performance and tend to minimize the differences between species in favour of their similarities. Animal studies and theories of posthumanism have given me the right tools to look at, understand and interpret the actions of Krõõt Juurak and Alex Bailey, for whom performance studies, often focused on the performer-spectator relationship or rather on the existence of an audience, do not seem to have yet a rich enough grid of reading.

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