The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center presents Whole Earth Talk #3: Andreas Weber (Germany) livestreaming on the worldwide, commons-based, peer-produced HowlRound TV community on Thursday 20 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 Andreas Weber (Germany) in regards to the new function theatre and efficiency can and will play within the new age of the Anthropocene, a geological period formed by people somewhat than by nature. We ask how can the numerous symbolic, imaginary, and actual house of theatre might help artists and audiences notice {that a} modern theatre and efficiency follow can now not simply represents interhuman conflicts. How can we elevate the required and pressing consciousness to incorporate a planetary consciousness about animals, crops, viruses, the ambiance, in addition to the “critical zone” 30 ft above and beneath the floor of the earth in modern theatre and efficiency?
Andreas Weber is a biologist, thinker, and nature author. He has levels in Marine Biology and Cultural Studies, having collaborated with theoretical biologist Francisco Varela in Paris. Andreas‘ work is specializing in a re-evaluation of our understanding of residing organisms. He is proposing to grasp organisms as topics and therefore the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic actuality. Accordingly, Andreas holds that an financial system impressed by nature shouldn’t be designed as a mechanistic optimization machine, however somewhat as an ecosystem which transforms mutual sharing of matter and power. Andreas has put forth his concepts in a number of books and is contributing to main German magazines and journals, equivalent to GEO, National Geographic, Die Zeit and Greenpeace Magazine. His newest books are Enlivenment. Toward a Poetics for the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2019) and Sharing Life: The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity (Boell Foundation, 2020). He teaches on the University of the Arts, Berlin and on the Università delle Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo, Italy. Andreas lives in Berlin and Italy.