‘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 ‘ecognosis', or attunements to ecological realities. Infante's play offers radical hope, within what Timothy Morton understands as the ‘dark-sweet'-structural, ideological, and philosophical ‘loops' 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’s play, the actants that punctuate and even orchestrate the action, and the existential notion that the theatre was never human.

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Estado Vegetal，模仿的姿态

“Estado Vegetal，一种模仿的姿态：对 Manuela Infante 的采访”以戏剧剧作家、导演、编剧和音乐家 Manuela Infante 与艺术史学家和策展人 Laurel V. McLaughlin 之间的对话为特色，讨论 Infante 最近的单人秀，Estado Vegetal（植物状态），2018 年与 Timothy Morton 的“生态学”概念或对生态现实的协调产生共鸣。Infante 的戏剧提供了激进的希望，在 Timothy Morton 所理解的“黑暗-甜蜜”结构、意识形态和哲学“循环”中，超越了人类。Infante 和 McLaughlin 讨论了 Estado Vegetal 构成这种希望的表演技巧，分为四个部分：通过面向对象的本体论的蔬菜开始，Infante 戏剧的分支结构，