Toxicities and Energetics will present a series of positions on the contemporary that are concerned with living with environmental change and its including its pollutions. Drawing on queer theory, disability studies, illness studies and current artistic practices, it will examine ways of challenging normative constructs of bodies, environments and relations; and ask kinds of alterities might appear how might they be considered? What ethics of living with and ‘staying with the trouble,’ finding queer kin and alternative energetics might emerge?

Taught with the MA Ecology and Contemporary Performance program at Theatre Academy of Helsinki.