Performing Waste - To Re-Member Pasts and Fabulate Futures

Performing Waste offers groundbreaking insights into the vibrant interdisciplinary field of waste studies through the lens of performance and artistic practice.
This pioneering collection examines how waste and wasting are performed across diverse media and genres, from Afrofuturist musical works to contemporary scrap art installations. Distinguished international scholars present original research using situated methodologies, including ethnographic approaches, to analyse compelling case studies that span global contexts. The volume explores eco-trauma and toxic kinship in artistic works, investigates the relationship between extractivism and knowledge production, and examines critical sites like the Polish-Belorussian border and e-waste processing in Ghana and Peru. By reframing familiar environmental narratives and introducing novel perspectives on waste agency, materiality, and performance, the collection challenges conventional understandings of our discarded materials and practices. Each contribution illuminates how waste performance can help us reimagine ecological relationships and envision alternative futures beyond extractivist paradigms.
This volume is an essential reading for students and scholars in environmental humanities, post humanist theory, decolonial studies, eco-arts, media studies, and performance studies, as well as anyone concerned with creative responses to our global waste crisis.

Sommario

Note on Contributors
Performing Waste: An Introduction by Dorota Sajewska, Mägorzata Sugiera
Part I: Practices of Wasting and Knowing
Chapter 1. Beneath Your Very Eyes by Ruth Schmidt
Chapter 2. The Rejected Remains as Fact by Katarzyna Trzeciak
Chapter 3. Notes on Waste by Dorota Sajewska
Chapter 4. On Rag-picking as Creative Intervention in Knowledge Production by Mägorzata Sugiera
Part II: Following Waste
Chapter 5. Unruly Performativity and Tactics of the Wastebound by Mateusz Borowski
Chapter 6. Suspending Discarding by Bettina Knaup
Chapter 7. The Art of Scrap by Marta Tomczok and Pawe¿ Tomczok
Chapter 8. Below the Threshold by Julia Schade
Chapter 9. People on the Move and Their Things by Filip Ryba
Part III: Re-membering Wasted Lands
Chapter 10. Spoiling Occupation by Mateusz Chaberski
Chapter 11. Living after an End of the World by Catherin Persing
Chapter 12. Wandering through the Smell of the Capitalocene by Leon Gabriel
Chapter 13. Sirenology and the Enchantment of Plastic by Fabienne Liptay
Index

Info autore

Dorota Sajewska is a Full Professor for Theatre and Performance Studies at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
Malgorzata Sugiera is a Full Professor at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and Head of the Department of Performativity Studies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dorota Sugiera Sajewska
• Con la collaborazione di: Dorota Sajewska (Editore), Małgorzata Sugiera (Editore)
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 24.02.2026
• EAN: 9781041020813
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4102081-3
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia > Ecologia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Ecology, PERFORMING ARTS / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / History & Criticism, Applied ecology, Theatre Studies, Science / Environmental Science, Performance Art, Environmental studies;Performativity;Discard studies