1st Edition
Applied Theatre and the Permacrisis Ethics, Politics, Pedagogy and Aesthetics
1. Beyond the Horizon 2. AI: Ancestral Information 3. Applied Theatre 4. The Permacrisis 5. Disaster Risk Reduction 6. Rallying and Remembering 7. Art as Oxygen 8. Resistance 9. Navigating Ethical Violence Post Disaster Moema Gregorzewski 10. The Pandemic 11. Haiti 12. Walking with the Ancestors
Biography
Peter O’Connor FRSNZ is the Director of the Centre for Arts and Social Transformation at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Peter has been making and researching applied theatre for over 30 years. He has worked in multiple disaster areas including earthquakes in Mexico City and Christchurch, the fires on Maui and in Australia, and in flood areas in New Zealand.
Katy Pérez works at the University of Auckland’s Centre for the Arts and Social Transformation. She has worked using applied theatre in national and international disaster zones, youth justice centres, teen-pregnancy units, anger management courses, and spent eight years delivering family violence prevention workshops in schools across Aotearoa New Zealand. Katy currently specialises in both research and facilitation of arts post-disaster practice and believes the arts are a perfect way to restore hope and inspire revolution.
