1st Edition

Performing Waste To Re-member Pasts and Fabulate Futures

Edited By Dorota Sajewska, Małgorzata Sugiera Copyright 2026
264 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant interdisciplinary field of waste studies through the lens of performance and artistic practice. This pioneering collection examines how waste and wasting are performed across diverse media and genres, from Afrofuturist musical works to contemporary scrap art installations. Distinguished international scholars present original... Read more

Note on Contributors

 

Performing Waste: An Introduction by Dorota Sajewska and Małgorzata Sugiera

 

Part I: Practices of Wasting and Knowing

Chapter 1. Beneath Your Very Eyes: Mining and Knowledge Production by Ruth Schmidt

Chapter 2. "The Rejected Remains as Fact": Writing Disjointed Archives with Plastic Waste by Katarzyna Trzeciak

Chapter 3. Notes on Waste: The Performance of the "Wasted I" in Lee Lorenzo's Notebooks by Dorota Sajewska

Chapter 4. On Rag-picking as Creative Intervention in Knowledge Production by Małgorzata Sugiera

Part II: Following Waste

Chapter 5. Unruly Performativity and Tactics of the Wastebound: A Case of Neptune Frost (2021) by Mateusz Borowski

Chapter 6. Suspending Discarding: Performing with/in/as Waste by Bettina Knaup

Chapter 7. Performing Scrap: Rethinking Metal Waste in the Wasteocene by Marta Tomczok and Paweł Tomczok

Chapter 8. Below the Threshold: Following Toxic Remnants from Europe to Ghana and Back Again by Julia Schade

Chapter 9. People on the Move and Their Things: Reflecting on Waste on the Polish-Belarusian Border by Filip Ryba

Part III: Re-membering Wasted Lands

Chapter 10. Spoiling Occupation: Performing Sinkholes in Times of Waste Siege by Mateusz Chaberski

Chapter 11. Living After an End of the World: Eco-Trauma and Transspecies Solidarity in Michael Marder and Anais Tondeur's Chernobyl Herbarium by Catherin Persing

Chapter 12. Wandering Through the Smell of the Capitalocene: Landscapes of Waste and the Remains of the Future in the Peruvian City of Chimbote by Leon Gabriel

Chapter 13. The Song of the Sirens and the Enchantment of Plastic by Fabienne Liptay

Index

 

 

Biography

Dorota Sajewska is a Full Professor for Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Małgorzata Sugiera is a Full Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Head of the Department of Performativity Studies.