Our doctoral researcher Alicia Reyes talks about her work exploring what music means in a world which is not only focussed on humanity. How do we create a more equitable environment, and what can the otherworldly and half-organic shape of plastics formed over decades by the power of the sea bring to a musical and theatrical experience? --- References:

• Donna Haraway - Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staying_with_the_Trouble
• Plastigomerates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastiglomerate
• 'Plastics of the Mediterranean' https://www.luftmeer-editorial.com/plastics-of-the-mediterranean/ by Matteo Guarnaccia and Teresa Fernández-Pello
• Heiner Goebbels - Aesthetics of Absence: Texts on Theatre https://www.heinergoebbels.com/heiner-goebbels/texts-by-hg/1568
• Matthias Rebstock and David Roesner - Composed Theatre: Aesthetics, Practices, Processes https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo12313703.html
• 'Re/Making Plastiglomerates' by Allie E.S. Wist https://alliewist.com/Re-Making-Plastiglomerates

Find out more about Alicia's work:

• https://www.aliciareyes.net/
• https://www.instagram.com/hallo.aliciareyes/

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