“The pandemic certainly seems to have given artists an obsession with anthropocide, or at least a taste for self-erasure,” Helen_E_Shaw writes. Read her review of a set of recent shows in New York.
The January performance calendar is like a seasonal migration. In the chill after New Year’s Day, Broadway and Off Broadway go quiet—with the tourists away, very few new productions open uptown. Downtown and farther out, though, there’s a feeding frenzy.
The composer Gelsey Bell’s “mɔɹnɪŋ [morning//mourning]” song cycle in Prototype was the most explicit imagining of the world without us. We’re into humanity’s aftermath as her first notes sound: performers tap their chests to sound like rain or insects; bowed instruments hum and drowse; marbles rattle in a bowl. What killed mankind? Who knows. But zoo animals escape; biomes recover; lions eat the defenseless cows; bacteria eat the microplastics.
This, like Bell’s “Mourning,” is accepted as a delightful dream. People laughed to see the plastic bags, which had fallen from the ceiling, fly upward in the film—a kind of sacred rapture for litter. Still, it’s disturbing. Once we can understand the words, we hear that the people are agreeing that it’s not enough to replace the trees; true repair requires the humans to remove themselves from the landscape where they do so much damage. Greetings done backward become farewells.
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