Abstract Montreal-born playwright, translator, and climate change theater activist Chantal Bilodeau is currently based in New York City. As a co-founder of the biennial Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA), which is a growing international initiative to foster climate change awareness through the performance of very short plays commissioned from playwrights in dozens of countries, she has been dividing her time between coordinating theater-based activism, publishing, and curating a blog series on HowlRound.com, and writing short plays as well as an eight-part series of full-length dramas. As she argues in her 2015 article “In Search of a New Aesthetic,” it is necessary “to move beyond writing plays about climate change to writing plays that are climate change – plays that embody, in form, content, and process, the essence of the issues we are facing. Plays where the concept of climate change is so integral to the work that the term doesn’t even need to be uttered. New problems cannot be solved with old solutions. A new consciousness requires new artistic constructs.” On the eve of the CDE conference, Chantal Bilodeau spoke about her research-based creative process at a public event in downtown Graz. At the conference, she presented a keynote on how her work in climate change theater addresses crisis as an ongoing condition. This interview provides detailed insights into Bilodeau’s artistic concepts, theater practices, and climate change activism.

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“编写气候变化剧”

摘要 蒙特利尔出生的剧作家、翻译家和气候变化戏剧活动家尚塔尔·比洛多 (Chantal Bilodeau) 目前居住在纽约市。作为两年一度的气候变化戏剧行动 (CCTA) 的联合创始人，这是一项日益壮大的国际倡议，旨在通过演出由数十个国家的剧作家委托制作的非常短的戏剧来培养气候变化意识，她一直将时间用于协调基于剧院的激进主义，在 HowlRound.com 上出版和策划博客系列，并撰写短剧以及由八部分组成的完整剧集系列。正如她在 2015 年的文章“寻找新美学”中所说的那样，有必要“从撰写有关气候变化的戏剧转向撰写气候变化的戏剧——在形式、内容和过程上体现的戏剧，我们面临的问题的本质。气候变化的概念对工作如此不可或缺，以至于这个词甚至不需要说出来。旧的解决方案无法解决新问题。新的意识需要新的艺术结构。” 在 CDE 会议前夕，Chantal Bilodeau 在格拉茨市中心的一次公共活动中谈到了她基于研究的创作过程。在会议上，她发表了一个主题演讲，内容是她在气候变化剧院的工作如何将危机作为一个持续的条件来解决。这次采访提供了对 Bilodeau 的艺术概念、戏剧实践和气候变化激进主义的详细见解。新的意识需要新的艺术结构。” 在 CDE 会议前夕，Chantal Bilodeau 在格拉茨市中心的一次公共活动中谈到了她基于研究的创作过程。在会议上，她发表了一个主题演讲，内容是她在气候变化剧院的工作如何将危机作为一种持续的条件来解决。这次采访提供了对 Bilodeau 的艺术概念、戏剧实践和气候变化激进主义的详细见解。新的意识需要新的艺术结构。” 在 CDE 会议前夕，Chantal Bilodeau 在格拉茨市中心的一次公共活动中谈到了她基于研究的创作过程。在会议上，她发表了一个主题演讲，内容是她在气候变化剧院的工作如何将危机作为一个持续的条件来解决。这次采访提供了对 Bilodeau 的艺术概念、戏剧实践和气候变化激进主义的详细见解。