Ben Hunt
Performance artist, activist, and researcher
Speaker
(he/him)
About: Ben Hunt is a performance artist, activist, and researcher whose work focuses on the intersections of theatre, trauma, and animal rights. He holds a PhD in Performance Studies from De Montfort University and curates PerformingAnimalRights.org, an online platform archiving and analysing performance-based activism. His practice includes endurance performance, embodied witnessing, and activist theatre, with a focus on interspecies empathy and disruption of anthropocentric norms.
Workshop — Theatre as Direct Action: A Creative Workshop on Performance Activism
This workshop explores how theatre and performance can function as forms of direct action in the struggle for animal liberation. Through participatory exercises, discussion, and reflection, we will examine how embodied performance practices—such as protest theatre, witnessing, and ritual—can challenge dominant narratives, cultivate empathy, and create space for resistance. Drawing on examples from performance activism and the facilitator’s own creative practice, participants will be invited to experiment with performance as a political tool. No theatre experience is required—just a willingness to move, reflect, and imagine.
