Dossiê Temático: As artes vivas e o Antropoceno/Capitaloceno

Thematic Dossier: Live Arts and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene

For this Thematic Dossier, Urdimento – Journal of Studies in Performing Arts – will receive articles until September 20, 2025. These articles must be included in Urdimento, v.3, n. 56, December 2025.

The Editorial Committee proposing this Thematic Dossier is composed of the following professors: Giorgio Gislon, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC), Stephan Baumgärtel, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC). Marina Guzzo, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Marina Fraga Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Milene Duenha, Universidade Estadual do Paraná (UFPR), Rafaela Blanch Pires, Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG).

The new climatic regime is producing increasingly frequent and severe environmental and social disasters. The term Anthropocene, originally proposed as a new geological epoch defined by human impact on the planet’s geophysics, has transcended the boundaries of scientific debates and is now circulating in discussions within the humanities and in liberal media outlets. Less frequently used is the term Capitalocene, which identifies the capitalist mode of production as the driver of this new geological epoch. Urgent global political action to reduce the impact of industrial pollution on the planet relies on slowly negotiated political agreements, often sabotaged by leaders and multinational corporations whose profit motives outweigh any concern for the future of the planet, humanity, and non-human beings.

In this context, what role could live arts play? What relationships do bodily and performative practices have and could have with projects to increase visibility and awareness regarding the Anthropocene/Capitalocene? What formal, thematic, and/or methodological artistic practices are being carried out in dialogue with an ecological perspective? What environmentally implicated pedagogical practices in live arts are being implemented? How can we imagine and artistically invent other relationships with animal, plant, fungal, and human lives? What actions within the field of arts foster the emergence of other worlds?

Suggestions for approaches:

  • On environmentally implicated artistic creation practices;
  • On artistic-pedagogical practices that address environmental issues and propose new sensitivities towards the Anthropocene/Capitalocene;
  • On artistic and/or pedagogical experiments related to the theoretical-practical intersections between body, nature, performance, and the Anthropocene/Capitalocene;
  • With themes, forms, and/or methodologies related to ecology;
  • That question the social structures producing the Anthropocene/Capitalocene;
  • That relate to ways of living integrated with nature;
  • That highlights social groups impacted by the Anthropocene/Capitalocene.

In addition to articles, the dossier will include submissions in the following formats: reports, debates and dramaturgy.

All submitted articles are evaluated using a double-blind system (peer review); publication will occur after approval by two ad hoc reviewers.

To publish in Urdimento n.56, the interested party must first register as an author at the link: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/user/register

Then, the article must be submitted to the OJS platform at the URDIMENTO link by September 20, 2025: http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento

Articles must be submitted in accordance with the Guidelines for Authors, at the link:

http://www.revistas.udesc.br/index.php/urdimento/about/submissions