Abstract:

Below the Blanket (2019), a performance installation at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, staged the enmeshed multispecies relationships present in the Flow Country, the largest blanket bog system in the world. While Below the Blanket represented the Flow Country through various artistic mediums, the physical matter—the sphagnum and peat mosses—that comprises the bog was conspicuously absent. Using critical plant theory, ecodramaturgies, and performance theory, this article grapples with the ethics of staging ecological matter such as mosses within the colonial contexts of the botanic garden and provides insights into the complex ethics of ecological performance.

 抽象的：

爱丁堡皇家植物园的表演装置《毯子下面》（Below the Blanket，2019）上演了世界上最大的毯子沼泽系统 Flow Country 中复杂的多物种关系。虽然《毯子下面》通过各种艺术媒介表现了流动之国，但组成沼泽的物理物质——泥炭藓和泥炭藓——却明显缺席。本文运用批判植物理论、生态戏剧学和表演理论，探讨了在植物园的殖民背景下展示苔藓等生态物质的伦理问题，并提供了对生态表演复杂伦理的见解。