Photo by Baram Company

Festivals are explosive, exhaustive, overwhelming — just like the impending climate crisis.

Two artist collaborator groups (one based in Tka:ronto and one in South Korea) have spent the last several months trying to research and create processes using “eco-dramaturgy”: an attempt to decenter human voices in storytelling.

In this current exchange, Korean, Canadian, and Indigenous artists and collaborators come together to investigate the concept of “festivity”, and attempt to share answers and tell stories about climate change from the perspective of 맹꽁이, Sancheoneo, Butterfly, frigatebird, Blue Heron, and Lost Creek.

This is a presentation of the process, with short scripted readings, followed by a conversation.

Yunmi Han, collaborating artist, 유령들의 대화 (she/they)
Yii Lee, collaborating artist, 유령들의 대화 (they/them)
Min Chae, collaborating artist & dramaturg, 유령들의 대화 (she/her)
Emily Jung, collaborating artist, producer, title TBC (she/her)
Theresa Cutknife, collaborating artist, title TBC (she/her)
Nara Kim, collaborating artist, 유령들의 대화