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 Châtelet Defends Her
Life Tonight, Background), this book's conversations propose shifts
in perspective necessary to establish and maintain sustainable cultures
of science and art.
