Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 2: From the Curious to the Quantum

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This book examines hidden aspects of the science performance and considers the ways that theatrical performance matters to the imagination and exploration of the mysteries of the natural world. While the first volume prioritizes public, outward-facing work, this collection addresses the localized, inscrutable, and intimate aspects of the science performance. This volume explores the importance of creative and scientific processes in the human quest to know the universe and our place in it. Interdisciplinary science dialogues have long been shaped by social intersections of identity. The essays, interviews, and creative works included in this book investigate the ways in which a diverse and inclusive body of science performers might inform approaches to unseen forces, contribute to the development of novel scientific understanding, and disrupt male-dominated disciplinary hierarchies. Scholars and artists in this volume address questions pertaining to the mysteries of the body and mind, scientific wonders, the ethics of the science performance, observable versus inferred phenomena, and obscure science objects. Featuring interviews with a range of people, including science-integrative playwrights such as Lauren Gundersen (The Catastrophist, Silent Sky, Emilie: La Marquise du Chtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, Background), this books conversations propose shifts in perspective necessary to establish and maintain sustainable cultures of science and art.

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Meredith Conti is Associate Professor of Theatre at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA. She is the author of Playing Sick: Performance of Illness in the Age of Victorian Medicine (2018) and the co-editor (along with Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.) of Theatre and the Macabre (2021). Vivian Appler is Associate Professor of Performance Studies at the University of Georgia, USA. She has published scholarship at the intersection of science and performance in Global Performance Studies, Theatre History Studies, and other journals. She is a former fellow of Fulbright and the Huntington Library.