Performing Ice

245 Pages·2020·3.581 MB·English

by  Carolyn Philpott, Elizabeth Leane, Matt Delbridge

PERFORMING LANDSCAPES
Performing Ice
Edited by Carolyn Philpott
Elizabeth Leane · Matt Delbridge
Performing Landscapes
Series Editors
Deirdre Heddon
Theatre Studies, School of Culture and Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, UK
Sally Mackey
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
London, UK
Performing Landscapes offers a critical study of generic and complex sites
for performance, including forests, ruins, rivers, home, fields, islands and
mountains. Distinctive to this series is that such landscape figures will be
located both on and off the theatrical stage, approached as both material
and representational grounds for performance-led analyses. With its
unique focus on particular and singular sites, Performing Landscapes will
develop in novel ways the debates concerning performance’s multiple
relations to environment, ecology and global concerns.
Editorial Board
Professor Stephen Bottoms (University of Manchester)
Professor Una Chaudhuri (New York University)
Dr. Wallace Heim (independent scholar)
Professor Carl Lavery (University of Glasgow)
Professor Theresa J May (University of Oregon)
Dr. Paul Rae (University of Melbourne)
Professor Joanne Tomkins (University of Queensland)
More information about this series at
http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14557
Carolyn Philpott • Elizabeth Leane
Matt Delbridge
Editors
Performing Ice
Editors
Carolyn Philpott Elizabeth Leane
Conservatorium of Music and Institute School of Humanities
for Marine and Antarctic Studies University of Tasmania
University of Tasmania Hobart, TAS, Australia
Hobart, TAS, Australia
Matt Delbridge
School of Communications and
Creative Arts
Deakin University
Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Performing Landscapes
ISBN 978-3-030-47387-7 ISBN 978-3-030-47388-4 (eBook)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47388-4
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The Performing Landscapes series provides an international platform for
the first comprehensive critical study of generic but complex sites of per-
formance landscapes, located on and off the theatrical stage and within
and beyond the frame of cultural performance practices.
Acknowledging and engaging with the nature-culture dynamics always
already at play in any concept of and approach to ‘landscape’, authors’
original research and innovative methods explore how landscapes—such
as mountains, ruins, gardens, ice, forests and islands—are encountered,
represented, contested, materialised and made sense of through and in
performance. Studies of singular landscape environments, experienced
from near and afar, offer up rigorous historical, cultural and critical discus-
sion and analysis through the dynamic and interdisciplinary lens of perfor-
mance. In the context of the twenty-first-century climate changes the
series also directs attention to performance’s diverse contributions to envi-
ronmental debates.
Performing Landscapes aims to understand better how specific land-
scape locations function as sites of and for performance and what perfor-
mance practice and analyses does to and for our understanding of, and
engagement with, landscapes.
Glasgow, UK Deirdre Heddon
L ondon, UK Sally Mackey

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cknowledgementS
The Editors of Performing Ice wish to express their sincere thanks to the
Series Editors for Performing Landscapes, Deirdre Heddon and Sally
Mackey, for their expert guidance; to Jacqueline Fox for her excellent
research assistance and collegiality; and to the team at Palgrave Macmillan
for seeing this volume through to publication.
Carolyn Philpott is also grateful to David, Marcus, Lucas, Jan and
John for their support, patience and encouragement during the period
in which she was collaborating on this project.
Much of Elizabeth Leane’s contribution to this research was sup-
ported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research
Counci’s Future Fellowship scheme under FT120100402. Elizabeth
would also like to thank Damian, Zac and Tessa for their support,
encouragement and good humour over the years in which this collec-
tion was produced.
Matt Delbridge would like to thank Lilla and Miles for their patience
and support during the development of the collection, as well as the
research services teams at the University of Tasmania, the University of
Melbourne and Deakin University.
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ontentS
Performing Ice: Histories, Theories, Contexts 1
Elizabeth Leane, Carolyn Philpott, and Matt Delbridge
Staging the Construction of Place in Two Antarctic Plays 27
Hanne E. F. Nielsen
Figures in a Landscape 55
Douglas Quin
Mixing Ice: DJ Spooky’s Musical Portraits of the Arctic and
Antarctic 87
Carolyn Philpott
One Year Performance 1921–22, or Two Men in a Boat 113
Mike Pearson
The Eco-Cruelty of the Great Finnish Famine of 1695–97:
Artaud’s Anarchic Ethics at the Climax of the Little Ice Age 131
Riku Roihankorpi
Immersion: The Aquatic Ice Body 153
Tace Kelly and Kit Wise
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Performing Sovereignty over an Ice Continent 171
Elizabeth Leane and Julia Jabour
The Gigaton Ice Theatre: Performing Ecoactivism in Antarctica 195
Leslie Carol Roberts
Hiking Beyond Roads and Internet: Weather, Landscapes and
Performance North of the Arctic Circle 213
Willmar Sauter
Index 231
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iSt of ontributorS
Matt Delbridge School of Communications and Creative Arts, Deakin
University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Julia Jabour University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Tace Kelly RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Elizabeth Leane School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Hobart,
TAS, Australia
Hanne E. F. Nielsen University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Mike Pearson Cardiff, UK
Carolyn Philpott Conservatorium of Music and Institute for Marine and
Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia
Douglas  Quin School of Creative Arts and Media, University of
Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Leslie Carol Roberts California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Riku Roihankorpi Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
Willmar Sauter Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
Kit Wise Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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