The first issue of the fourteenth volume of Amfiteater: Journal of Performing Arts Theory, is largely devoted to articles developed from papers presented at the journal's international symposium, "Ecology and the Performing Arts," held in the autumn of 2025 at the Slovenian Theatre Institute in Ljubljana.
The aim of the Amfiteater Autumn Symposium was to explore ecology and climate change in relation to drama, theatre, the performing arts, and hybrid artistic practices (such as performance art, new media art, and intermedia art). Questions of how to respond to the impending ecological crisis, and what role art can play in advancing the green transition, have become increasingly prominent within contemporary artistic practice.
The symposium was conceived by Janez Strehovec, philosopher and theorist of new media art and its contexts, who in recent years also published several in-depth studies on ecological issues in contemporary art and society. This issue is dedicated to his memory.
The thematic section of the first issue of this year's Amfiteatra comprises thirteen articles in Slovenian and English. The contributors are Prof. Dr. Lada Čale Feldman, Dr. Gašper Troha, Prof. Dr. Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, Dr. Petra Ježková, Assist. Prof. Dr. Giada Cipollone, Assistant Bruna Bonanno, Maria Paola Zedda, M.A., Anja Dimitrijević, M.A., Prof. Dr. Narvika Bovcon, Prof. Dr. Aleš Vaupotič, Assist. Prof. Dr. Kaja Kraner, Tery Žeželj, M.A., and Jatun Risba, M.A.
In addition to the thematic section, the issue includes three further articles: Uroš Trefalt examines the transformations of traditional puppet characters in the Central European cultural space; Eva Kraševec discusses comedy at the beginning of the twentieth century; and Helena Valerija Krieger explores the authorial ballet choreographies of The Dying Swans Project in virtual space.
The issue was edited by dr. Maja Murnik.
Ekologija in uprizoritvene umetnosti / Ecology and the Performing Arts
Lada Čale Feldman
The Deliberative Ecology of Kyoto
Posvetovalna ekologija v drami Kyoto
Gašper Troha
Nonhuman Actors in Slovenian Drama
Nonhuman Actors in Slovenian Drama
Mateja Pezdirc Bartol
The Secret Life of Trees in the Theatre Productions of Žiga Divjak
The Secret Life of Trees in the Theatre Productions of Žiga Divjak
Petra Ježková
Trees as a Dramatic and Performative Metaphor
Drevesa kot dramska in performativna metafora
Giada Cipollone
Island Studies and Performance Studies
Otoški študiji in uprizoritveni študiji
Bruna Bonanno
Spinning Extraterritorial Yarns: Notes Towards Pirate Dramaturgy
Razpredanja o ekstrateritorialnosti: zapiski o piratski dramaturgiji
Maria Paola Zedda
Anja Dimitrijević
Digital Space, Environment and Performance in the Venetian Context
Digitalni prostor, okolje in uprizarjanje v beneškem kontekstu
Narvika Bovcon
Aleš Vaupotič
Novomedijska umetnost in etika infosfere
New Media Art and the Ethics of the Infosphere
Kaja Kraner
Space as Protagonist: Ecological Aspects of Neja Tomšič’s Performative Works
Prostor kot protagonist: ekološki vidiki performativnih del Neje Tomšič
Tery Žeželj
Arboreal Analysis: Towards a Site-Responsive Approach in Analysing Site-Specific Art
Arboristična analiza: o prostorsko odzivnem pristopu k analizi prostorsko specifične umetnosti
Jatun Risba
Vital Materiality in the Art Film Series A Tree Doesn’t Fall Far From the Mountain
Vital Materiality in the Art Film Series A Tree Doesn’t Fall Far From the Mountain
Articles
Uroš Trefalt
Decline and Emergence: Puppet Types from Tradition to Modern Reinterpretations
Zaton in vznik: tipi lutk od tradicije do sodobnih reinterpretacij
Eva Kraševec
Komedija na začetku dvajsetega stoletja, njena strast do realnega in vpliv na razvoj žanra
Helena Valerija Krieger
Navodila za avtorje / Submission Guidelines
Editor-in-Chief: Maja Murnik, PhD
Editorial Board: Zala Dobovšek, PhD (University of Ljubljana), Jure Gantar, PhD (Dalhousie University, CA), Primož Jesenko, MA (Slovenian Theatre Institute), Matic Kocijančič, PhD (Slovenian Theatre Institute), Bojana Kunst, PhD, Prof. (Justus-Liebig University Gießen, DE), Blaž Lukan, PhD, Assist. Prof. (University of Ljubljana), Aldo Milohnić, PhD, Assoc. Prof. (University of Ljubljana), Barbara Orel, PhD, Prof. (University of Ljubljana), Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, PhD, Prof. (University of Ljubljana), Maja Šorli, PhD (University of Ljubljana), Tomaž Toporišič, PhD, Prof. (University of Ljubljana), Gašper Troha, PhD (Slovenian Theatre Institute)
International Editorial Board: Mark Amerika, MFA (University of Colorado, US), izr. prof. dr. Marin Blažević (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, HR), Ramsay Burt, PhD (De Montfort University, GB), prof. dr. Lada Čale Feldman (Sveučilište u Zagrebu, HR), Joshua Edelman, PhD (Manchester Metropolitan University, GB), Anna Maria Monteverdi, PhD (Università degli Studi di Milano, IT), Janelle Reinelt, PhD (The University of Warwick, GB), Anneli Saro, PhD (Tartu Űlikool, EE), prof. dr. Miško Šuvaković (Univerzitet Singidunum, RS), prof. Stephen Elliot Wilmer (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
Co-Publisher: Slovenian Theater Institute (represented by Gašper Troha, director) and University of Ljubljana Press (reprezented by Gregor Majdič, the Rector of the University of Ljubljana)