Performing Climates

Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens

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English

Routledge
04 February 2025

Performance art; Theatre Studies; Earth sciences; Applied ecology

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

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, decay and renewal happening on and off stage in a literal play of cells and particles. Performing Climates examines live performance as a uniquely compostable artform, formed by sonic vibrations and movements of air and matter, more-than-human elements, composition and decomposition. This book will appeal to undergraduate audiences, postgraduate scholars and performance studies colleagues, offering exciting possibilities for reconsidering theatre and performing in an age of crisis.

By: Eddie Paterson, Lara Stevens
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 471g
ISBN: 9781032225562
ISBN 10: 1032225564
Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Pages: 156
Publication Date: 04 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Notes Author Bios List of Figures Chapter One: Performing Climates Chapter Two: Biospheres Chapter Three: Death Chapter Four: Ear Chapter Five: Ants Chapter Six: Mermaid Chapter Seven: Granite Chapter Eight: Spider Chapter Nine: Mycorrhizae Chapter Ten: Lego Chapter Eleven: Ice Chapter Twelve: Worms Chapter Thirteen: Unicorn Chapter Fourteen, with Angie Abdilla (contributing author): Tree Reference List Index

Eddie Paterson is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. Lara Stevens is Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

Reviews for Performing Climates

‘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 ‘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