Climate Lens Playbook

1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/Climate Lens Playbook CLIMATE LENS PLAYBOOK (<a href="https://theatrewithoutborders.com/climate-lens/">LINK</a>)   <ol><li>Practice literalism. End the tradition of turning everything into a symbol for human life.</li><li>Occupy science. Befriend facts and factoids. Enrich theatre with the bristly nomenclatures of the natural sciences.</li><li>Yes to vastness, and yes also to the infinitesimal. Toggle between the Big Picture and Reality-at-Hand, however tiny. Also between Deep History and the Here and Now. Do the Scalar Slide.</li><li>Practice Glocality: intense focus on our localities, but with global eyes in the back our heads, scanning for interrelatedness and beaming signals out to other localities–consciously, urgently.</li><li>Loosen your epistemologies. Don’t believe everything you think.</li><li>Flatten your ontologies. Everyone and everything invited in.</li><li>Unflatten your geographies. What happens here doesn’t stay here. The Far Away folds right onto the Right Here. Make plays with pleated places.</li><li>Take all animals seriously, not just human ones. Also plants, including weeds, nettles, hemlock. . . Also minerals, rocks, currents of all kinds, clouds, winds, and other atmospheric forces. Also bacteria. Especially bacteria.</li><li>Disaggregate the human. Who drives the carbon economy? Who profits? Who suffers?</li><li>Don’t worry about working up empathy. Sympathy’s all you need. Feeling for others is just as powerful—and less anthropocentric?—than feeling with others.</li><li>De-Sentimentalize “Nature.” Keep the awe, lose the “Awww!!!” Forge new affective pathways to the non-human, beyond sadness, guilt, and fear. Invite in humor, anger, joy, irony, sarcasm . . .</li><li>Stand alongside our fellow species like a breathing exercise, to open up space in our cells for epistemologies of the biosphere that our bodies currently don’t hold, or ones we need to re-ignite. Physicalize awe. </li><li>Congregate, coalesce, flock, swarm, meet and greet. But also: disperse, disseminate, distribute, scatter and spread.</li><li>Biology over psychology, geology over sociology, creaturely life over life style.</li><li>Invent plans as well as plots, tell times as well as stories, write worlds as well as plays.</li><li>Create theatres of species life; fill the stage with the Earth.</li></ol>   By Una Chaudhuri, with members of CLIMATE LENS: <a href="https://www.36pt5.org/">36.5 / A Durational Performance with the Sea</a> <a href="http://thearcticcycle.org/">The Arctic Cycle</a> <a href="https://artistsandclimatechange.com/">Artists & Climate Change</a> <a href="http://www.boomarts.org/">Boom Arts</a> <a href="http://www.dearclimate.net/#/homepage">Dear Climate, New York University</a> <a href="http://www.fundarte.us/">Fundarte / Climakaze</a> <a href="http://www.theheatcollective.org/">H.E.A.T. Collective</a> <a href="https://globallab.georgetown.edu/">Lab for Global Performance & Politics, Georgetown University</a> <a href="http://pearldamour.com/">PearlDamour</a> <a href="http://www.superheroclubhouse.org/">Superhero Clubhouse</a> <a href="http://www.theatrewithoutborders.org/">Theatre Without Borders</a> <a href="https://www.thisisnotatheatrecompany.com/">This is Not a Theatre Company, New York University</a> <a href="https://unasite.net/">Una Chaudhuri, New York University</a> <a href="http://www.worksonwater.org/">Works on Water</a> rich