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In the same way that Gilles Deleuze saw philosophy as dependent on the production of new concepts, theatre practice and theory are also bound to the invention of figures, images and tropes. In this paper, I look to rethink the logic and practice of theatre ecology by proposing the trope of the archipelago, a geographical topos that connects sea and land, ocean and island.
In doing so, I do not simply mean to advance the archipelago as a metaphor that would link culture to nature, a kind of bridge bringing together two separate phenomena. More naively, perhaps, I suggest that thinking in the theatre is archipelagic, a way of assembling that has the ocean folded into it, that invites spectators to venture forth on the ebb and flow of some wave.
Inevitably, drifting between the elemental and cultural necessitates a different style of performance analysis, one in which the surgical operation of the analytical enterprise is abandoned for a floating response that ‘tacks’ the flux of performance.
The commentary that emerges is double: a writing that organises and explicates but, which, at the same time, expresses, through cadence and syntax, affects that cannot be spoken, non-human forces that break with criticism’s usual geography of servitude: its shapes, schemas, and articulations.
Carl Lavery teaches theatre and performance at the University of Glasgow.
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| 23 Feb 2021 | 6:15pm - 8:15pm |
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