Greta Alfaro, le rituel à l’épreuve de l’animal

Many animal societies display relational logic and collective practices that can be compared to those of humans, as it has been noticed by ethology. Contemporary artists have considered a transfer between human and animal susceptible to question the phenomenology of a social group. For some of them,...

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Main Author: Vincent Lecomte
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre d´Histoire et Théorie des Arts 2019-12-01
Series:Images Re-Vues
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/6647
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Summary:Many animal societies display relational logic and collective practices that can be compared to those of humans, as it has been noticed by ethology. Contemporary artists have considered a transfer between human and animal susceptible to question the phenomenology of a social group. For some of them, like Greta Alfaro, the human ritual can be re-read - or reviewed - through animal. The vulture or the wild boar prove to be the involontary accomplices of an investigation on practices which we could consider specific to the human being. And therefore, they so allow to open the area of a common heritage.
ISSN:1778-3801