"Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, From the Lab to the Streets examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book's chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, reenact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix's Brainchild) and Raven Baxter ("Raven the Science Maven") and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, From the Lab to the Streets offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies. Along with its complementary volume From the Curious to the Quantum, this book documents the varied ways in which identity categories and cultural constructs are formed and reformed through science performances"--
"Explores hidden aspects of the science performance and the ways theatrical performance matters to the imagination and exploration of the mysteries of the natural world. Topics covered include the mysteries of the body and mind, scientific wonders, the ethics of the science performance, observable vs. inferred phenomena, and science objects. It features creative interludes as well as interviews with a variety of figures including science-integrative playwright Lauren Gundersen (The Catastrophist, Silent Sky)"--
Volume 2 of Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance investigates performances that illuminate the hidden recesses and inscrutable mysteries of the natural and human-made worlds.
While the first volume of this series prioritizes public, outward-facing, and activist work at the intersections of art and science, this volume considers performances of localized, concealed, inexplicable, or intimate phenomena, from the closed-door procedures of biomedical trials to the impacts of climate change.
Interdisciplinary science dialogues have long been shaped by the cultures and identity communities in which they arise and circulate. The essays, interviews, and creative works included here not only expose the historical and contemporary harms created by exclusive and prejudicial processes in art and science, they also contemplate how a diverse, inclusive body of science performers might help deepen how we see the unseen forces of our universe, contribute to novel scientific understandings, and disrupt disciplinary hierarchies long dominated by white men of privilege. This collection expands upon extant scholarship on theatre and science by foregrounding identity as a crucial thematic and representational element within past and present performances of science.
Featuring interviews with science-integrative artists such as Lauren Gundersen (The Half-Life of Marie Curie) and Kim TallBear (Native American DNA) as well as creative works by playwrights Chantal Bilodeau and Claudia Barnett, among others, Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum proposes shifts in perspective and procedure necessary to establish and maintain sustainable cultures of science and art.
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Explores the mysteries of the body and mind, scientific wonders, the ethics of the science performance, observable vs. inferred phenomena, and science objects.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Entangled Domains: Revealing the Productive Tensions of Art and
Science, Meredith Conti (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA) and Vivian Appler
(University of Georgia, USA)
PART ONE: Performing Human and More-than-Human Relationships
Climate, Colonization, and Performance Roundtable Claudia Barnett (Middle
Tennessee State University, USA), Chantal Bilodeau (Playwright, USA), David
Geary (Capilano University, Canada), Kirsten Lindquist (University of
Alberta, Canada), and Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada)
Creative Interlude: Critical Polyamorist 100s: Mistress of the Shears
(8.29.19); Winona Quarantine (04.14.20); River Quantum: Instructions for
Babygirl (05.13.20), Kim TallBear (University of Alberta, Canada)
1. Staging the Mad Past: Performance, Criticism, and Historiography in
Steppenwolf Theatre Companys One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Alexis
Riley (Independent scholar, USA)
2. Through Fish Eyes: Raising Awareness of Ocean Degradation through
Performance, Madhvi Venkatesh (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, USA)
and Kasi Aysola (Dance artist, USA)
3. Labouring the Medical: Female Bodies for Sale on the Contemporary
Stage, Gianna Bouchard (University of Birmingham, UK)
Creative Interlude: Please Let Me Shoot You: A Monologue, Claudia Barnett
(Middle Tennessee State University, USA)
PART TWO: Challenging Traditions Through the Science Performance
4. Spooky(s) Action at A Distance: Remixing Relations between Science
and Performanc, Mike Vanden Heuvel (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
5. Using Short Digital Films to Counter Stereotypes about Scientists of
Color and from Marginalized Backgrounds, Mónica Feliś-Mójer (Ciencia
Puerto Rico and Science Communication Lab, USA)
5. Celestial Politics: Performance and the Cosmic Underclass, Felipe
Cervera (UCLA, USA)
Creative Interlude: Mother Chantal Bilodeau (Playwright, USA)
PART THREE: Revising the Art-Science Repertoire
7. Performing and Negotiating Imperialism: Science, Agriculture, and
Food in Puerto Rico, Teófilo Espada-Brignoni (University of Puerto Rico)
8. Brechts Leben des Galilei, Science, and Identity Crisis in Germany,
Derek Gingrich (Lux Research Inc., USA)
9. Let science and art have at it: The Living Newspapers Perform
Science to Promote Depression-era Theatre/Squonk Performs Theatre to
Promote Trump-era Science, Emily Klein (Saint Marys College of
California, USA)
Creative Interlude: Excerpt from Variation for Three Voices on a Letter to
Nature, Diane Stubbings (Playwright and critic, Australia)
The Catastrophist Artists Roundtable William DeMeritt (Actor, director, and
educator, USA) Martine Kei Green-Rogers (DePaul University, USA), and Lauren
Gunderson (Playwright, USA)
Creative Interlude: Excerpt from The Catastrophist, Lauren Gunderson
(Playwright, USA)
Selected Bibliography
Index
Meredith Conti is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. She is the author of Playing Sick: Performance of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (2018) and the co-editor (along with Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) of Theatre and the Macabre (2021).
Vivian Appler is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. She has published scholarship at the intersection of science and performance in Global Performance Studies, Theatre History Studies, and other journals. She is a former fellow of Fulbright and the Huntington Library.
