- Title
- Performing farmscapes on urban streets
- Creator
- Haedicke, Susan C.
- Relation
- Popular Entertainment Studies Vol. 7, Issue 1-2, p. 93-116
- Publisher
- University of Newcastle
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In The Principle of Hope, Ernst Bloch introduces the idea of the “Not-Yet”, a ubiquitous utopian impulse that stimulates future-oriented thinking about “something … that has never been conscious before.” These imaginings of a better future, Bloch argues, are really only ways to understand the obscurities of the present. Street theatre companies, like Le Phun, Opéra Pagaï, Friches Théâtre Urbain and Fallen Fruit, seek to envisage a “not-yet” of future urban farmscapes in familiar present-day locations. Their performance-based projects highlight contemporary social issues around alternative agricultural practices and suggest imaginative provocations to world-wide concerns around food security by proposing ephemeral urban farms in unexpected city sites and restoring the efficacy of an agricultural “commons” where resources and tasks are shared. Each project thus metaphorically marks the urban landscape with creative possibilities for a more secure food future. Dr Susan Haedicke is Associate Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Warwick, UK. Her current research interests include a focus on local food growing initiatives and community gardens worldwide and how they ‘perform’ in the larger social setting.
- Subject
- alternative agriculture; commons; Fallen Fruit; Friches Théâtre Urbain; Le Phun; Opéra Pagaï; street theatre; urban farm; Popular Entertainment Studies
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1453553
- Identifier
- uon:44691
- Identifier
- ISSN:1837-9303
- Rights
- © 2016 The Author
- Language
- eng
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