%0 Book
%A Gabriella Giannachi
%A Nigel Stewart
%D 2006
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 9783035303759
%T Performing Nature
%B Explorations in Ecology and the Arts
%R 10.3726/978-3-0353-0375-9
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1043652
%X 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’.
%K Künste, Natur, Aufsatzsammlung, Acoustic Ecology, Nature/Art, Spectacle/Landscape, Ecology of Performance, Sound Walking
%G English