Abstract
This chapter reviews the representation of climate change in performing and visual arts over the past ten years, canvassing the aesthetic exploration of the climate emergency in selected international works by surveying emergent narrative themes, key dramaturgical shifts and aesthetic strategies. Discussing the limitations of anthropocentric conventions, it investigates innovative approaches and their capability to generate knowledge about the dynamics of Earth processes and humanity’s embeddedness and interference with them. Looking to novel experimental work currently in development at The University of New South Wales (UNSW)’s iCinema Research Centre, we speculate how these emergent aesthetics may be further developed to augment the arts’s capability to deepen insight and strengthen preparedness in a rapidly transforming world.
RAS ID
70135
Document Type
Book Chapter
Date of Publication
5-3-2024
School
Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA)
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Publisher
Springer Cham
Identifier
Helena Grehan: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9257-5615
Comments
Thurow, S., Grehan, H., & Pagnucco, M. (2024). Representing the climate crisis: Aesthetic framings in contemporary performing and visual arts. In Climate Disaster Preparedness: Reimagining Extreme Events through Art and Technology (pp.107-120). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56114-6_9