Unleashed: My life as a dog

“Unleashed” is a creativecritical piece which focuses on my relationship with Artaud, a rescue Kelpie I taught to bark, and in particular on transference love which, for Jacques Lacan, is predicated upon knowledge. “Unleashed” questions The Law, and therefore language as communication, entering as it does into perpetual forms of dialogue and questioning through queer(y)ing the notion of interspecies kinship: Who is training whom in this story? Who is rescuing whom? What is knowledge? What is love? It crosses boundaries between autobiography, poetry and theory, with forays into psychoanalysis, philosophy and behavioural psychology because Antonin Artaud, after whom I named my dog, was a writer of and at the limit. Limit of aesthetic form. Limit of language. Limit of subjectivity. His philosophy is best described as an anti-philosophy. “Unleashed” displays epistemological solidarity with Antonin Artaud at the level of stylistics and performance across divergent discourses, testifying to a poetics of openness and excursiveness in the making. It highlights the shifting, indeed interrupted and illusory, temporal nature of subjectivity, dispelling any sense of certainty utterance such as I Am.