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Performing Ice (Performing Landscapes) - Hardcover

Book 3 of 3: Performing Landscapes
 
9783030473877: Performing Ice (Performing Landscapes)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3030473872 ISBN 13: 9783030473877
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Carolyn Philpott is Senior Lecturer in Musicology and Associate Head – Research at the University of Tasmania’s School of Creative Arts and Media, Australia, as well as Adjunct Senior Researcher at the Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Australia. She has published widely on music and place in journals and books in the fields of musicology and Antarctic studies.

Elizabeth Leane is Professor of English (School of Humanities) and Associate Dean – Research (College of Arts, Law, and Education) at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Her books include Antarctica in Fiction (2012), South Pole: Nature and Culture (2016), and the co-edited collection Anthropocene Antarctica (2019).

Matt Delbridge is Professor of Performance Studies and Head of School, Communication and Creative Arts, at Deakin University, Australia, and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong, Hong Kong.He is the author of Motion Capture in Performance (2015).


From the Back Cover

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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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3030473872
ISBN 13 
9783030473877
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
252
Editor
Philpott Carolyn, Leane Elizabeth, Delbridge Matt