海外名家系列讲座第61讲
主题：New materialism and the performing arts: towards a theatre of ecological matter
承办单位：英语学院
时间：2018年11月22日（周四）18:00-20:00
地点：松江校区五教楼5322
姓名：Peter Eckersall 教授
工作单位：纽约市立大学研究生院The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center
从事专业或研究方向：戏剧与表演
专家简介：Peter Eckersall is Professor and Executive Officer of the PhD Program in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Centre, City University of New York. He is also Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne. He works on contemporary performance practices in Australasia and Europe, with particular interests in Japanese performance and on dramaturgy. Recent publications include New Media Dramaturgy: Performance Media and New Materialism (with Edward Scheer and Helena Grehan, Palgrave 2017) and The Dumb Type Reader (co-edited with Edward Scheer and Fujii Shintaro, MTP 2017). Peter is the dramaturg for Not Yet It’s Difficult (NYID), based in Melbourne, Australia.
讲座内容：Following the publication of Jane Bennet’s “Vibrant Matter: a political ecology of things” (2009) much more attention has been given to the role of non-human agents, stage properties and new technologies in the visual and performing arts. Some of this thinking has been around the dramatic and performative qualities of non-human forms such as puppets, performing animals and things that change and transform the artistic experience. Theatre scholars have connected this to a range of critical theories and contexts including new media dramaturgy, theatre and ecology, and affect and spectatorship. My lecture will examine these notions in relation to recent performance works and argue for the need for theatre to connect to themes of ecology and posthumanism.
