Description
This book examines critical themes in environmental studies though theatre and performance studies. It experiments with forms along with the practice of praxis to provide radical frameworks for resilience in the contemporary age of crisis. Drawing on Ravi Sundaram’s concept of “Wild Zones”, it explores the kinetic overflows in informal sites, but also in the intimate spaces that have been realigned or shocked or fenced in, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of theatre and performance studies, environment and sustainability, and environmental humanities.
Table of Contents
1 Can we quickly meet this Wednesday
Interview between Ravi Sundaram and Myer Taub
2 PaR as forest loss: Experiments from a southern cultural laboratory
Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy
3 Writing to trees with the trees: Experiments in NIROX and Mustarinda
Annette Arlander
4 Floating forests and sanitary fences: Underwater dancing as autistic (in)visibility and international disobedience
Ciane Fernandes
5 “Interstitial” City Woodlands: Encounters with enfolded debris in urban wildscapes
Jo Scott
6 The Slow Professor steps down from the fence: Covidian
transmissions from a year in lockdown
Johnmichael Rossi
7 Gas-masked semazen: Whirling in the middle of a chaos
during the Gezi protests
Esra Cizmeci
8 Pages with borders: experiments and experiences
Orestes Pérez Estanquero
9 Florence: A play by Myer Taub
Myer Taub
10 Teaching performance-based courses under COVID-19: A Wild Zone
Jessica Philile Mawuiena Foli
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