Arons, Wendy, and Theresa J. May. 2012. Readings in performance and ecology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Chaudhuri, Una. “The Silence of the Polar Bears: Performing (Climate) Change in the Theater of Species”
Geopathology: “The term refers…to the many problems related to place—as nation, homeland, neighborhood, environment, border—that largely defined the past century of dislocation. The term also seeks to name, and to recognize, a related phenomenon: the characterization of place itself as a problem, as a site of often-painful psychological impasse and as an ideological blind spot, with devastating consequences” (46).
The theater of species: “Climate change, which turns familiar sites into landscapes of risk or disaster, also reminds us that we humans are one species among many, among multitudes, all equally contingent and threatened. The theater of species restages all life as species life, highlighting and foregrounding the ecological dimensions of human life, which include not only biological, climatogical, and material factors but also the vast panoply of what Donna Haraway calls ‘naturecurltures’ in companion Species: the ideas and practices through which human beings related to the ‘more-than-human’ world. The theater of species brings the resources of performance to bear on what is arguably the most urgent task facing our species: to understand, so as to transform, our modes of habitation in a world we share intimately with millions of other species. The theater of species addresses what we could call a ‘zoögeopathology’—the planetary health emergency that is challenging the anthropocentric geographies we have lived by for so long” (50).
“the potential for performance to offer a kind of somatic knowledge, a way of understanding the Other by going beyond rationalizations and abstractions to embodiment and physicalization. The shift from one kind of knowledge to another” (52).
Zoo psychosis
Anti-Eden