AUTHORS' WORKSHOP led by Pauline Peyrade.
“Intensely inhabiting specific bodies and places is a way of cultivating the capacity to respond to earthly emergencies, together.” Donna Haraway, Vivre avec le trouble 1 . How can we write ecologically? How can we decenter and add complexity to our perspective? What do non-human presences disrupt and shift in forms, structures, constructions, fables, and narratives? How can we describe a fern the way we describe a face? How can we broaden the field of theater? These are some of the questions that will accompany this writing workshop, bringing together five writers and four actors. One of the fundamental challenges of contemporary ecological thought is to place humans on the same level as other species, and to stop seeing the natural world as a backdrop and as resources intended for them. This happens through political decisions, but also through imagination and representation. An ecological way of writing would aim to be horizontal, conscious, and inclusive. It does not necessarily involve prescribed themes or subjects. It is an experimental approach, a line of inquiry that we will build together. 1 . Donna Haraway, Vivre avec le trouble , trans. Vivien García, ed. Des mondes à faire, 2020, p.15.
Source: paris.fr — photo: NR