Dance as a Field of Experiment for Ethological Ethics (AT) – Shinu Kim (ongoing)
Dance as a Field of Experiment for Ethological Ethics (Working Title) – Shinu Kim
This study explores how contemporary dance can serve as a site of experimentation for ethological ethics, inviting us to rethink our humanistic view of subjectivity and to reestablish our relationships with the surrounding world. In response to the environmental, social, and political crises of our time, the study calls for an alternative ethical framework. Drawing on Spinozist-Deleuzian philosophy, it introduces an “ethological” approach—originally referring to the study of animal behavior in their natural habitats—that enables a radically decentralized and non-humanist understanding of ethics. Departing from ethics as reprimand, guilt, or morality, ethological ethics is conceived primarily as an affirmative exploration of relations that enhance our capacity to act—an ethics that all entities engage in, through their own situated, embodied, and relational practices. The theoretical framework is applied to the work of contemporary dance artists such as Mårten Spångberg, Radouan Mriziga, and Geumhyung Jeong. Their practices are interpreted as experimental engagements that reconfigure how we inhabit the world.
Kurzbiografie:
Shinu Kim is a performing arts researcher and producer. Her doctoral research explores contemporary dance as a site for experimenting with ethological ethics. She is a recipient of the DAAD doctoral scholarship. Alongside her academic work, she has worked as a producer for various festivals and institutions, including Festival Bo:m (Seoul), Asia Culture Center–Theater (Gwangju), and the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Korea (Seoul). She is also the co-founder of Ob/Scene Festival (Seoul), an independent and interdisciplinary performing arts festival.