Performances
The event NOW – AT ONCE – (AS OF) TODAY will focus on the role of climate change theater in public discourse about our planet in crisis. It will take place in an art gallery called Halle für Kunst in the center of Graz, the capitol of Styria (Austria). Embedded in the atmospheric impact of visual art by Argentinian artist Celina Eceiza, i.e., of works that highlight spatial experience, students from a drama and theater seminar taught by Nassim W. Balestrini (Centre for Intermediality Studies in Graz/CIMIG & Department of American Studies, University of Graz) will read/perform four plays.
Subsequently, they will invite audience members – among them students of Julia Hoydis (Department of English Studies) and Ulla Kriebernegg (Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging and Care) – to reflect on the ways in which activist theater can contribute to raising awareness of the climate crisis. (How) can such theater convey changes of attitude and behavior without being overly didactic? Which aesthetic strategies of drama and theater are crucial in this respect? Which inquiries of Aging and Care Studies can be profitably linked to the meaning-making impact of theater in sociopolitical contexts? How do students who, for instance, want to become educators or who want to work for cultural institutions, perceive their own options? We look forward to a stimulating discussion of how the arts and academic scholarship address ways of responding to the climate crisis and of how we can raise awareness of these issues in Graz.
Cooperation: Centre for Intermediality Studies in Graz, Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Aging and Care, Departments of English and American Studies, Halle für Kunst Steiermark
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