The Scents of an Ending

Departing from her experience of the performance To Burn, Forest, Fire (2021) and research of the installation Resurrecting the Sublime (2020), Goya van den Berg’s thesis fills a gap in the under-researched area of olfactory elements in theatre performance. By shedding new light on the role of the non-human in discussions of climate change and narratives of extinction, Van den Berg shows the friction of thinking new media dramaturgy together with archival studies and new materialism to reframe (human) agency in the past, present and future. This study will be of interest to anyone interested in rethinking human and non-human narratives of climate change and archiving.