ABSTRACT
The chapter addresses the question of how multiple species collaborate in the production of art, contributing to postanthropocentric forms of performativity. While exploring the performative practices of Anna Dumitru and Alex May, Jenna Sutela, and Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta in the context of biosemiotic considerations, the chapter demonstrates that more/than/human performance results from the merger of the multiple entanglements of human bodily activities with nonhuman environmental and metabolic processes. The artists enact adopting various technoscientific methods to produce not only aesthetical but predominately ethical bonds, through material practices of engagement. As the chapter proves, the artistic process is inextricably linked with ethical outcomes that do not stem from the fact that we interact with the world as separate entities but with the entanglements we pursue.
