1st Edition

Forests and Fences

Edited By Myer Taub Copyright 2024
222 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

222 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

222 Pages 54 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

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... Read more

1. Interview between Ravi Sundaram and Myer Taub                

Ravi Sunderam and Myer Taub

2. PaR as foresting 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

11. Photo Essay

Biography

Myer Taub is Senior Lecturer in theatre and performance – where his teaching on philosophies on theatre and performance extends into the radical.