168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Performing Climates features 13 interconnected essays exploring theatre and performance’s relationship with more-than-human elements at a time of climate emergency. This book argues that Western performance – how we conceive of it, as well as how we train and educate people in and about it – needs to reorient its ways of making and thinking about itself to reconsider patterns of breakdown,... Read more

1. Performing Climates  2. Biospheres  3. Death  4. Ear  5. Ants  6. Mermaid  7. Granite  8. Spider  9. Mycorrhizae  10. Lego  11. Ice  12. Worms  13. Unicorn  14. Tree

Biography

Eddie Paterson is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne.

Lara Stevens is Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Performing Climates speaks brilliantly to the new zeitgeist of artistic and cultural thinking that is showing ways of living with climate change empathetically and with attention to multiple cultural knowledge systems and artistic sensibilities. Paterson and Stevens show how to live with sensitive attention to the everyday, situated inextricably between thinking, creativity and activism.’

Peter Eckersall, City University of New York