The essays in this issue consider dark ecology in relation to performance and explore the ways that performance can intervene in or engage with a plurality of dark ecologies. The Israeli parliament declared that day Yom ha-Zhikaron la-Shoah ve la-Gevurah (Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day), colloquially called Yom ha-Shoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), marking not only destruction but resistance, seemingly giving them equal prominence. It is like being accustomed to something strange.’ It is this tension between hope and despair, the coexistence between ‘depressing’ and ‘sweet’ - this space of ‘dark ecologies’ in our current political and ecological climate - that we explore in this special issue. Nearly two decades ago, the United Nations General Assembly. Morton refers to the awareness of these substantial ecological dilemmas as ‘ecognosis’, which he describes as ‘a riddle… It is something like coexisting. Thursday is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945. Remembrance Day for Lost Species : Toward an ethics of witnessing. With Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day, April 24, 2017) just a handful of days before Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Captives. While some may harbour hope and positivity about the future, it is easy to feel overwhelmingly hopeless about these large-scale, complex problems. Dark Choreography of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre Robyn Sassen. Human activity on the planet is responsible for a number of ecological and political dilemmas, including (but not limited to) global climate change, pollution, leaking pipelines, fragmentation of ecosystems, diminishing natural resources and nuclear meltdowns. 221 ), 31550 ( IDE ) Global Youth Service Days : support goals and ideals ( H. And strangely it is dark-sweet.’ The concept of dark ecology represents a crucial intervention in the current moment of political conservatism and climate change denial and enables a focused exploration of a wide range of issues relating to performance and ecology. Yet ecological awareness is also dark-uncanny. Timothy Morton describes dark ecology as ‘ecological awareness, dark-depressing.
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