Opposing Anthropocentric Displays: Reframing Human-Nature Duality by Exposing Exhibitionary Strategies

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. 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.