GENERAL EDITOR
Richard Gough is a co-founder and the General Editor of Performance Research, Professor of Music and Performance at University of South Wales, Cardiff, UK, and Artistic Director of the Centre for Performance Research (CPR). He has produced and organized numerous conferences, workshops, festivals and tours of theatre and dance companies across the past forty-five years, and he has directed theatre productions, curated events and lectured in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia and throughout Europe. His own artistic-led research explores the interface between food, cookery and performance.
ISSUE EDITORS
Evelyn O’Malley is Senior Lecturer in the department of Drama at the University of Exeter where she researches weathering and climate in theatre and performance. Her monograph Weathering Shakespeare: Audiences and Open-Air Performance is published in Bloomsbury’s environmental cultures series.
Chloe Kathleen Preedy is an Associate Professor in early modern drama at the University of Exeter (UK). Her publications include Marlowe’s Literary Scepticism (2013) and Aerial Environments on the Early Modern Stage: Theatres of the Air (forthcoming), and she co-led the AHRC-funded project Atmospheric Theatre: Open-Air Performance and the Environment (2018--21).
CONTRIBUTORS
Caterina Albano is a Reader in Visual Culture and Science at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London (UK). She is the author of Out of Breath: Vulnerability of air in contemporary art (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), Memory, Forgetting and the Moving Image (Palgrave MacMillan, 2016) and Fear and Art in the Contemporary World (Reaktion Books, 2012), as well as journal articles and essays on the politics of emotion and affect, the politics of memory, and curating.
Meghan Moe Beitiks is an artist working with associations and dissociations of culture/nature/structure. She analyses perceptions of ecology though the lenses of site, history, emotions and her own body in order to produce work that analyses relationships with the non-human. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Studio Art Lecturer at the University of Florida (USA). www.meghanmoebeitiks.com
Lotte Bode holds a master’s in Theatre and Film Studies and a master’s in Journalism. She conducts research on archiving performance art within an institutional context at the Flemish Centre for Art Archives (CKV). She also works as a cultural journalist.
Amanda Couch is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham (UK). Her art and research practice cuts across media, straddling the domains of performance, sculpture, photography, print and the book, food, the everyday, participation and writing to reimagine histories of the body.
Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca is Head of DAS Graduate School, Amsterdam. Her current research includes Performance Philosophy & Animals: Towards a radical equality with Rajni Shah, Fevered Sleep and Every house has a door. She is a convener of the Performance Philosophy network and co-editor of its book series and journal.
Gabriella Daris is a PhD candidate in the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, London (UK), a Visiting Research Fellow at Waseda University in Tokyo (Japan), and the curator of Yoko Ono: Looking for … , Liliane Lijn: Early events, Five Narrative Sculptures and Gustav Metzger: Dancing tubes interventions.
Timmy De Laet is Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance Studies at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). He is founding member and coordinator of CoDa | Cultures of Dance – Research Network for Dance Studies. His research interests include the reiterative nature of dance and performance in relation to re-enactment, archivization and historiography.
Sasha Engelmann is a London-based geographer exploring interdisciplinary, feminist and creative approaches to environmental knowledge making. She is an active member of the Aerocene Community and a co-founder (with Sophie Dyer) of the feminist satellite imaging project open-weather. She is Lecturer in GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway University of London (UK).
Harriet Rabe von Froreich is a performance artist, researcher and writer. Her academic background is in Live Art and Performance Studies and Philosophy. Currently, she is pursuing a practice-based PhD at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), exploring the potential of artistic strategies to mediate incommensurable scales and raise ecological awareness.
With a background in sculpture, Neville Gabie’s practice also extends to performance-based work, film and photography. He has an established national and international reputation for both his studio-based practice and his extensive commissioned projects, with work in the Tate and Arts Council collections. He was born in Johannesburg South Africa and has a masters from the Royal College of Art, London (1988). www.nevillegabie.com
Kate Holmes is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Exeter (UK) who researches aerial performance practice and its history as culturally situated embodied experiences. Her first book, Female Aerialists of the 1920s and early 1930s: Femininity, celebrity, and glamour has recently been published by Routledge.
Maggie Inchley is a Senior Lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at Queen Mary University of London (UK). Her research interests include the aesthetic and political performance of voice, listening and cultural audibility. Maggie is principal investigator of the AHRC-funded practice-based research project The Verbatim Formula, which works with care-experienced young people.
Veronica Jimenez Borja is a Professor at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research focuses on the possibilities offered by performative speculative arts to reconstitute ways of thinking, caring and being with the non-human world.
Megan Johnson is a performance scholar, singer, arts administrator and dramaturg. She is a PhD candidate in Theatre & Performance Studies at York University (Toronto, Canada), where her research focuses on disability performance, infrastructural politics and expanded dramaturgy. Her work has been published in Performance Matters, Canadian Theatre Review, Journal of Public Pedagogies, and Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies.
In her artistic practice and research Edith Kollath examines transformation processes, precarious conditions and their particular social, ecological and philosophical contexts. This results in multimedia installations, performative objects and collaborative projects that become centres of thought and text movements spanning a wide variety of disciplines within the Arts and Sciences. www.edithkollath.com
Beate Körner is an artistic researcher, activist and educator working with performative strategies. Their work explores moments of transgression and the productivity of disruption, questioning the reliability of identity and memory. Currently, Beate Körner is a PhD candidate at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), researching the entanglement of performance art and mental crisis.
S. R. May is a theatre scholar with research interests in puppetry, object theatre and the relationship between performance and philosophy.
Will Montgomery is a Reader in Contemporary Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London (UK). His most recent publications are the essay collection Writing the Field Recording: Sound, word, environment (co-edited with Stephen Benson, Edinburgh UP, 2018) and Short Form American Poetry: The modernist tradition (Edinburgh UP, 2020).
Evan Moritz is a PhD student at the University of Toronto’s Center for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies (Canada). He researches the outer limits of science-fiction and fact—exploring relationships between colonization of planetary bodies, the future of settler colonialism, and the impact of science fiction on contemporary practices.
Clare Nattress is a Lecturer in Graphic Design at York St John University and PhD researcher at Leeds Beckett University. She is an interdisciplinary artist whose work across data art, performance, photography, digital practices and installation is underpinned with conceptual rigour. Her current research finds her collaborating with atmospheric scientists at the Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories, University of York.
Wood Roberdeau is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), where he co-leads the Critical Ecologies Research Stream. His research turns to cultural production in climate crisis that explores a poetics of encounter, observation and participation. Wood has published on contemporary visual practices as complex systems for eco-critical thinking.
Kenya (Robinson) is a mischief maker from Gainesville, Florida (USA). www.privilegeasplastic.com
Leena Rouhiainen is Professor in Artistic Research at the University of the Arts Helsinki (Finland). She is a dancer and choreographer whose research interests lie in somatics, choreography, experimental writing, phenomenology and artistic research. She has edited the books Dance Spaces: Practices of Movement (2012) with Susanne Ravn and Tanssiva tutkimus: tanssitutkimuksen menetelmiä ja lähestymistapoja (2014) with Hanna Järvinen.
Natalie Rowland is based at the University of Chichester (UK) lecturing in Scenography, Choreographing with New Media and Aerial Dance. Her research interest is located in the intersection and discussions between the scenographic and the choreographic, drawing on her practice both as a lighting designer and an aerial artist.
Isabel Stowell-Kaplan is a Marie Curie Research Fellow in the Department of Theatre at the University of Bristol (UK). Her first book, Staging Detection: From Hawkshaw to Holmes, was published by Routledge in 2021.
Alexandra Regan Toland is dean of studies and junior professor for arts and research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Germany), where she directs the PhD programme in art and design. She has published widely on artistic approaches to soil protection and explores social and cultural issues of urban soils, vegetation and air in her own artistic research practice.
Emmanuelle Waeckerlé is an artist, composer and Reader in Fine Art and Relational Practices at UCA Farnham (UK), interested in the materiality and musicality of language. Her music and scores are distributed by Wandelweiser editions. Latest publications include A Direction Out There: Readwalking (with) Thoreau (Ma Bibliothèque, Edition Wandelweiser, 2021)
Nik Wakefield is Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Performance at University of Portsmouth (UK). He is a researcher, artist and writer working mostly in performance but also across dance, theatre and visual art. His research is concerned with theoretical issues of time and ecology in contemporary performance and art practices.
Jeni Walwin is an independent curator, writer and public art consultant currently managing public art commissions in London’s East End; advising on the gift of a private collection to UK museums; contributing reviews to Art Quarterly; mentoring an Irish PhD student; and tutoring on the MA Art and Politics, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Frances Williams is a writer and researcher. She is a Lecturer for the MA in Arts in Health at Glyndwr University (UK) and is co-founder of CAHN (The Critical Arts in Health Network). Her book When Was Arts in Health? is due with Palgrave in 2022.
Sandra Zellmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Art, Design and Performance at University of Portsmouth (UK). She is a graphic designer with an emphasis on typography and editorial design. Sandra combines her design practice with her undergraduate teaching. In her research she investigates the role of the graphic designer as a visual translator.