Aquatopia : climate interventions / May Joseph, Sofia Varino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Joseph, May, author.

Varino, Sofia, author.

Series:

Critical Climate Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harmattan Theater (Theater company).

Theatrical companies--New York (State)--New York.

Theatrical companies.

Climatic changes in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"Aquatopia documents Harmattan Theater's ecological interventions and traces its engagements with water-bound landscapes, colonial histories, climate change and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin. The volume uses Harmattan's site-specific performances as a point of departure to consider climate change and rising sea levels as geographical, ecological, and urban phenomena. Instead of a collection of flat, static surfaces, the Aquatopia atlas is animated by a disorienting, anti-mapping strategy, producing a deterritorialized, nomadic, fluid atlas unfolding in real time as an archive of climate change in multidimensional, active space. The book is designed for pedagogical access, with interludes that consolidate the learning outcomes of the experimental theory animating each site-specific performance. Accompanied by close descriptions of five performances and supplemented by digital documentation available online, this volume intervenes in discussions on climate change, urbanism, and post/decolonialization, and contributes to interdisciplinary studies of ecology and environmental politics, post/decolonial theories and practices, performance studies and aesthetics, in particular public art, and performance as research"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface

Prologues

Chapter 1: Storm as Method: Climate Performatives

Climate Ethnography: Opening the World

Performing Port City Ecologies: Dutch and Portuguese Legacies

Decolonial and Queer Performatives

Method to the Storm

Notes

Interlude: Aquatopia, Governors Island, New York, USA (2017)

Chapter 2: Multidirectional Thalassology: Comparative Lagoon Ecologies

Venice, Postponed

Venetians in the Malabar

A Malabari in Venice

"Venetian Gulf"

Multidirectional Thalassology

Lagoon Ecologies

Aquatic Activity and Coastal Performatives

Learning from Aqua Alta

Interlude: Acqua Alta, Devil's Bridge, Venice, Italy (2014)

Chapter 3: Harmattan Theater as Oceanic Praxis: Why Water Matters to Performance

Aquatopia

Palimpsests, Biodegradables, and Ghosts

Virtuosity and Neoliberal Imperatives

Space/Time Compression and Strategies for Environmental Theater

Interlude: Far Rockaway, Tribute Park, Beach 116, Rockaway Park, Queens (2013)

Chapter 4: Terrestrial Becomings: Walking for Climate

The Tagus River as Multispecies Assemblage

The Art of Repair

The Deep Body

Walking Art

Walking for Climate

Note

Interlude: Mar Português, Cais das Colunas, Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon (2012)

Chapter 5: Anthropogenic Citizens, Environmental Agents: Sea Dike, Singel Canal, Amsterdam (2014)

The Cultural Construction of Women as Environmental Citizens

Performers of the Sea

Anthropogenic Accountability

Interlude: Sea Dike, Singel Canal, Amsterdam (2014)

Chapter 6: Queering Climate: Ecologies of Historical Radiance

Becoming Radiant

The Lure of the Social: Relational Aesthetics as Ecology

Symbiotic Performatives.

Spectatorship and Participation: Audiences, Publics, Communities

Epilogues

Harmattan Wind-Climate Change Aesthetics and the Nonhuman

Toward a Somatic Ecology-Harmattan Performs

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-335990-6

1-003-35990-6

1-000-82465-9

1-000-82469-1

9781003359906

OCLC:

1347699271