The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents Whole Earth Talk #2: Frédérique Aït-Touati livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Thursday 13 April 2023 at 9:30 a.m. PDT (San Francisco, UTC -7) / 11:30 a.m. CDT (Chicago, UTC -5) / 12:30 p.m. EDT (New York, UTC -4).
Join us for a Whole Earth Conversation with Frédérique Aït-Touati (France) concerning the new position theatre and efficiency can and may play within the new age of the Anthropocene, a geological period formed by people moderately than by nature. We ask how can the numerous symbolic, imaginary and actual area of theatre can assist artists and audiences understand {that a} up to date theatre and efficiency observe can now not simply represents interhuman conflicts. How can we elevate the required and pressing consciousness to incorporate a planetary consciousness about animals, vegetation, viruses, the ambiance, in addition to the “critical zone” 30 ft above and under the floor of the earth in up to date theatre and efficiency?
Frédérique Aït-Touati is a theatre director and historian. She explores the hyperlinks between science, literature, and politics. Fellow of the University of Oxford from 2007 to 2014, she is now a analysis fellow on the CNRS, member of the Center for Research on Arts and Language on the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris. Her books embrace Fictions of the Cosmos(2011), Contes de la Lune (2011), Le Monde en pictures (2015), and Terra Forma (2019). Her theatre work offers with ecological points (Gaïa Global Circus, Le Théâtre des Négociations, INSIDE, Moving Earths) inside her firm Zone Critique and has been offered in Nanterre-Amandiers, théâtre de l’Odéon, Centre Pompidou, Kaaitheater de Bruxelles, in addition to New York (The Kitchen, The Signature Theatre), Berlin (HAU, Berliner Festspiele) and Taipei.