Journal article
Compost and Air-conditioning: Beyond biospherical performance and towards the shimmer
E Paterson
Performance Research | TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD | Published : 2019
Abstract
Drawing on Bruno Latour‘s Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (2018), this essay links compost, and the biological and cellular processes of growth, flow and disintegration, to contemporary responses to climate politics through performance. I elaborate on the notion of theatre of things: a dramaturgy of networks, of atmospheres, actors and affects; in order to reconstitute the relation between climatic conditions across the world and stage.
Grants
Awarded by Australian Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP160100272 Power and Performance: Revaluing theatre in the 21st century