Aquatopia

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.

Autorentext

May Joseph is Founder of Harmattan Theater, Professor of Social Science at the Pratt Institute, and author of the ghosts of lumumba; Sealog: Indian Ocean to New York; Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination; and Nomadic Identities: The Performance of Citizenship. Joseph is co-editor of Terra Aqua: The Amphibious Lifeworlds of Coastal and Maritime South Asia and of Performing Hybridity. She co-edits three book series from Routledge: Critical Climate Studies, Ocean and Island Studies, and Kaleidoscope: Ethnography, Art, Architecture and Archaeology. Joseph creates site-specific performances along Dutch and Portugese maritime routes exploring climate issues. Visit www.mayjoseph.com.

Sofia Varino is a writer and public scholar whose work focuses on radical thought and practice, cutting across political ecology, history and philosophy of science, and transdisciplinary gender studies. They have published in journals like Whatever, SHIMA, European Journal of Women's Studies, and Women's Studies Quarterly, and co-edited a special issue of Somatechnics on data and gender in the life sciences. Varino is a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with the minor cosmopolitanisms research training group, a cooperation established among the University of Potsdam, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and Freie Universität Berlin in Germany. Visit sofiavarino.com.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Prologues: Climate Precarity and Performance; Opening the World: Climate for Real. 1. Storm as Method: Climate Performatives; Interlude: Aquatopia (2017) 2. Multidirectional Thalassology: Comparative Lagoon Ecologies; Interlude: Acqua Alta (2014) 3. Harmattan Theater as Oceanic Praxis: Why Water Matters to Performance; Interlude: Far Rockaway (2013) 4. Terrestrial Becomings: Walking for Climate; Interlude: Mar Português (2012) 5. Anthropogenic Citizens, Environmental Agents; Interlude: Sea Dike (2014) 6. Queering Climate: Ecologies of Historical Radiance. Epilogues: Harmattan Wind: Climate Change Aesthetics and the Nonhuman; Toward a Somatic Ecology: Harmattan Performs