The Climate Doesn't Care About Me
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TOPIC
With reference to their project, "Dear Climate," Una Chaudhuri (Drama), Fritz Ertl (Drama) and Marina Zurkow (ITP), talk about collaborating across media to find new affective modes and stylistic registers for addressing the ecological crises associated with climate change.
SPEAKERS
Una Chaudhuri teaches English, Drama, and Environmental Studies at New York University. Her recent books include Animal Acts: Performing Species Today, co-edited with Holly Hughes, and Ecocide: Research Theatre and Climate Change, co-authored with Shonni Enelow. She collaborates with Fritz Ertl in a long-term project called Research Theatre. Her current projects include a book tentatively entitled The Stage Lives of Animals, another on oceans and performance, and a Research Theater exploration of Alexander Von Humboldt.
Fritz Ertl is head of faculty and curriculum at Playwrights Horizons Theater School in New York. For the past ten years he has been working on a series of new plays exploring the catastrophic consequences of globalization: YOUTH IN ASIA: A TECHNO FANTASIA (aka the resistance project), written by Steven Drukman; FOXHOLLOW (aka the animal project), by Steven Drukman; THERE WAS AND THERE WASN‘T: AN OLD IRAQI FOLK TALE (aka the queeraq project), written by Daniel Glen; and CARLA AND LEWIS (aka the ecocide project), by Shonni Enelow. He is currently collaborating with Una Chaudhuri on a play about Alexander Humboldt.
Marina Zurkow builds animations and participatory environments that focus on humans’ relationships with animals, plants and the weather. Recent exhibitions include bitforms gallery; the Montclair Art Museum; Smithsonian American Art Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; National Museum for Women in the Arts; Borusan Collection, Istanbul; and the Sundance Film Festival. Zurkow is a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellow, and has been granted awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She is on faculty at NYU’s Interactive Technology Program (ITP), and is represented by bitforms gallery.