Performing Animal Rights

The Sound of Another Species

On experimental music, animal voices and the politics of interspecies listening

Oct 17 • Dr Ben Hunt

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September 2026

Does activist art need to be good art?

On aesthetics, ethics and the uncomfortable question of quality

Sep 5 • Dr Ben Hunt

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August 2026

Before animals have rights

How performance rehearses multispecies politics

Aug 22 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Can performance bring us closer to animal life?

On embodiment, imitation, and the impossibility of becoming another animal

Aug 8 • Dr Ben Hunt

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July 2026

Does animal liberation need its own high art?

On requiems, galleries, and taking nonhuman animals seriously in culture

Jul 30 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Composing for Change

In this episode, Ben Hunt is joined by composer and pianist Keane Southard to explore how music can become a powerful force for compassion, reflection…

Jul 29 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Cultural intervention as animal advocacy: from fandom to contemporary art

How existing cultural worlds can become spaces for animal liberation

Jul 22 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Fandom for Animals

Storytelling, Fandom, and Animal Advocacy with the Protego Foundation

Jul 22 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Beyond certainty and embracing the experimental

Why risks in art and academia might be the most hopeful form of advocacy

Jul 15 • Dr Ben Hunt

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Sonic Activism & Industry Standard

In this episode, Ben Hunt is joined by undercover investigator, filmmaker, and creative advocate Gemunu de Silva to explore how sound can become a…

Jul 14 • Dr Ben Hunt

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June 2026

Who speaks for the animals?

On Hen, elections, and imagining nonhuman political life

Jun 26 • Dr Ben Hunt

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April 2026

Dancing against domination: queering animal advocacy through performance

On play, pleasure, and disrupting the hypermasculinity of non-human dominion

Apr 23 • Dr Ben Hunt

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