Laurel McLaughlin (Ph.D. Candidate, History of Art) publishes "'Estado Vegetal,' a Gesture of Imitation: An Interview with Manuela Infante"
Abstract (from the publisher)
'"Estado Vegetal, a Gesture of Imitation: An Interview with Manuela Infante' features a conversation between theatre playwright, director, scriptwriter and musician, Manuela Infante, and art historian and curator Laurel V. McLaughlin concerning Infante's most recent one-woman show, Estado Vegetal (vegetative state), 2018 in resonance with Timothy Morton's concept of 鈥榚cognosis', or attunements to ecological realities. Infante's play offers radical hope, within what Timothy Morton understands as the 鈥榙ark-sweet'-structural, ideological, and philosophical 鈥榣oops' beyond the human. Infante and McLaughlin discuss the performative techniques of Estado Vegetal that compose such hope in four parts: vegetable beginnings through object-oriented ontology, the branching structure of Infante鈥檚 play, the actants that punctuate and even orchestrate the action, and the existential notion that the theatre was never human."
Read Laurel's interview with Manuela Infante !