Performing ice
by Delbridge, Matt Leane, Elizabeth Philpott, Carolyn
In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes - glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves - are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable, untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have featured - …
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- Full title :Performing ice / Carolyn Philpott, Elizabeth Leane, Matt Delbridge, editors.
Summary
In the Anthropocene, icy environments have taken on a new centrality and emotional valency. This book examines the diverse ways in which ice and humans have performed with and alongside each other over the last few centuries, so as to better understand our entangled futures. Icescapes - glaciers, bergs, floes, ice shelves - are places of paradox. Solid and weighty, they are nonetheless always on the move, unstable, untrustworthy, liable to collapse, overturn, or melt. Icescapes have featured - indeed, starred - in conventional theatrical performances since at least the eighteenth century. More recently, the performing arts - site-specific or otherwise - have provoked a different set of considerations of human interactions with these non-human objects, particularly as concerns over anthropogenic warming have mounted. The performances analysed in the book range from the theatrical to the everyday, from the historical to the contemporary, from low-latitude events in interior spaces to embodied encounters with the frozen environment.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Palgrave Macmillan
- Place of Publication:Cham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages) : : illustrations (black and white)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783030473884, 3030473880
- DOI:10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4
- oclc:on1198556687
- LC Classification:PN2091.S8
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/6538
Table of Contents
Performing ice : histories, theories, contexts -- Staging the construction of place in two Antarctic plays -- Figures in a landscape -- Mixing ice : DJ Spooky's musical portraits of the Arctic and Antarctic -- One year performance 1921-22, or two men in a boat -- The eco-cruelty of the Great Finnish Famine of 1695-97 : Artaud's anarchic ethics at the climax of the Little Ice Age -- Immersion : the aquatic ice body -- Performing sovereignty over an ice continent -- The gigaton ice theatre : performing ecoactivism in Antarctica -- Hiking beyond roads and internet : weather, landscapes and performance north of the Arctic Circle.
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