The Scents of an Ending: (Dis)Entangling Climate Change Narratives and Archival Processes in Olfactory Art

Goya van den Berg

doi:10.5771/9783689001452

Summary

Departing from her experience of the performance To Burn, Forest, Fire (2021) and research of the installation Resurrecting the Sublime (2020), Goya van den Berg’s thesis fills a gap in the under-researched area of olfactory elements in theatre performance. By shedding new light on the role of the non-human in discussions of climate change and narratives of extinction, Van den Berg shows the friction of thinking new media dramaturgy together with archival studies and new materialism to reframe (human) agency in the past, present and future. This study will be of interest to anyone interested in rethinking human and non-human narratives of climate change and archiving.

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Edition: 1/2024
Copyright year: 2024
ISBN-Print: 978-3-68900-144-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-68900-145-2
Publisher: Tectum, Baden-Baden
Series: AGent. New Theses in Performance Research
Volume: 11
Language: English
Pages: 88
Product type: Book Titles

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages I - VIII
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
1. New Materialism and a nonhuman Polity No access
2. Climate Crisis and Imagination No access
3. New Media Dramaturgy and a Repositioning of the Human Performance No access
4. The Privileged Position of Sight in Enlightenment Thinking No access
5. Olfactory Art as New Media No access
1. The Archive(s) as Starting Point No access
2. Epistemic Production beyond the Archive No access
3. The DNA of the Project No access
4. Performing Absence No access
5. Ghosts in the Natural History Museum No access
6. Plural Histories, Histories as Plural No access
1. The First Forest and the Last Forest No access
2. The Postnow of Climate Change No access
3. The Perception of Disappearance and Olfaction No access
4. The Olfactory Record and the Body as Archive No access
5. The Politics of the Present, the Presence of Politics No access
Conclusion No access Pages 75 - 80
Acknowledgements No access Pages 81 - 82
Bibliography No access Pages 83 - 88