Abstract
Abstract. This article examines the constitution of affective
atmospheres that arise through the encounter of scientific and theatre
practices. Using an autoethnographic approach, the presented work focuses on
a collaborative theatre project on the climate crisis. Here, the author
performed in the role of a scientific expert next to colleagues that have a
climate change-related research background. Three aspects of affective
atmospheres emerging in the rehearsal process are analysed: one's position
in the interplay of powerful materialities, the relationality of sensual
bodies, and the (in)stability of scientific identities. This paper shows
that the artistic collaboration opens up space for reflecting on science
that seek to overcome ostensible dualisms of subject/object, mind/body, and
reason/emotion. It emphasizes the opportunity of art to bring into account
body, more-than-humanity and relationality as part of scientific practices
in times of anthropocentric debates facing climate change.
Subject
Earth-Surface Processes,Anthropology,Geography, Planning and Development,Global and Planetary Change
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