Afterword: How to celebrate
This afterword for Tanja Beer’s book Ecoscenography reflects on the notion of ‘celebration’ as replacing ‘production’ in scenographic work cycles. The question I now ask is not why ecologically grounded scenographic practice should be embraced, but rather how. How can theatre and performance celebrate the interweaving of humans, things and places? By way of an afterword for this book and as a provocation to future practitioners, I offer three replies to this question:
· Empty space is a colonial concept.
· Health is a criterion for scenographic practice.
· Design for the feelings that have no name.
Each of these are offered as wayfinders to help negotiate the complexities of living with a climate changed world. Yet, also to embrace the next fifty years as a period unpresented creativity, experiment, and of celebrating human interdependence with worlds that sustain, care, and weather uncertain futures.
