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13. Staging Larger Scales and Deep Entanglements: The Choice of Immersion in Four Ecological Performances
- Eliane Beaufils (author)
Chapter of: Life, Re-Scaled: The Biological Imagination in Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance(pp. 353–377)
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| Title | 13. Staging Larger Scales and Deep Entanglements |
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| Subtitle | The Choice of Immersion in Four Ecological Performances |
| Contributor | Eliane Beaufils (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0303.13 |
| Landing page | https://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0303/chapters/10.11647/obp.0303.13 |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Eliane Beaufils |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
| Published on | 2022-10-11 |
| Short abstract | This chapter discusses three performances that try to confront spectators with large biological scales despite the limited configuration of cultural venues. |
| Long abstract | This chapter discusses three performances that try to confront spectators with large biological scales despite the limited configuration of cultural venues. All three build up new stages, mostly outside theatres: After A Life Ahead is installed by Pierre Huyghe in a disused ice rink, Exote is conceived by Kris Verdonck as a kind of vivarium for animals, plants and spectators, and Tobias Rausch’ Planttheatre The World Without Us takes place in the middle of a park. These stage reconfigurations promote a spatial displacement, and raise the awareness of scales that are still more suggested than embodied. The experience of biological presence is deepened by the perception of entangled human and non-human processes. Indeed, these plants or places are products of historical evolutions, biological dissemination, human journeys. Moreover, they give signs of possible outcomes and further cultural-climatic evolutions. The experiment of intertwined processes and the impossibility of grasping all the biological and temporal scales go hand in hand with a sensation of mismatching or the feeling of being overwhelmed. These apparatuses may thus give rise to a critical thought nourished by sensitive immersion and speculative confrontation. This leads the author to ask whether these aesthetic experiences could pave the way towards a new relational and ontological manner of thinking. Indeed, the audience's deeply situated reception enables the spectators to develop a ‘sense of wonder’ and the theatre to become ‘diplomatic’. |
| Page range | pp. 353–377 |
| Language | English (Original) |
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