Performing Nature: Explorations In Ecology And The Arts

Synopsis

The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as 'cultural', by others as an 'independent domain', or even as a powerful process of exchange 'between the human and the other-than-human'. The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, 'Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity', look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography either reinforce or contest our ideas about nature and human-human or human-animal relations and identities. The second part, 'World: Hermeneutic Language and Social Ecology', investigates political protest, social practice art, acoustic ecology, dance theatre, family therapy and ritual in terms of social philosophy. Contributors to the third part, 'Environment: Immersiveness and Interactivity', explore architecture and sculpture, site-specific and mediatised dance and paratheatre through radical theories of urban and virtual space and time, or else phenomenological philosophy. The final part, 'Void: Death, Life and the Sublime', indicates the possibilities in dance, architecture and animal behaviour of a shift to an existential ontology in which nature has 'the capacity to perform itself'.

Copyright:

2005

Book Details

Book Quality:

Excellent

Book Size:

437 Pages

ISBN-13:

9783035303759

Related ISBNs:

9783039105571, 9780820475844

Publisher:

Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers

Date of Addition:

01/24/23

Copyrighted By:

Peter Lang UK

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Entertainment, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Outdoors and Nature

Submitted By:

Rochelle Pretsell

Proofread By:

Rochelle Pretsell

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.