Issue 12
- Autumn 2020

Human

Scene 7.2 from Barbara- A Tale of Transformation by Garðar Eyjólfsson, illustration Janosch Bela Kratz, edited

Editors - Jyoti MistryRose Brander

The 2019 PARSE conference “HUMAN” invited contributions to “reimagine, remake, expose and expand the human vis-à-vis notions of the nonhuman, inhuman, subhuman, post-human and inhumane.”

Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson and Kristina Hagström-Ståhl, who conceived the conference posed the following questions in their call for submissions:

How can we rethink the conditions for a political imaginary capable of structural transformation and justice for human and nonhuman alike? What is at the heart of current debates on the human? What political imaginaries have enabled the current wave of xenophobic and neo-colonial dehumanisation? How can the arts respond to what may be termed a crisis in humanity?

The conference programme subsequently included cross-disciplinary art practices—music, theatre, film, fine arts and more—coupled with conceptual and theoretical considerations on the expansive conceptions of the *human condition. Participants and delegates from varied and disparate research propositions considered the past and current state of the human condition, and speculated on human futurity in the context of current geo-political, economic and environmental urgencies.

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