ABSTRACT

This chapter considers how contemporary performance has played a crucial role in rendering apocalyptic futures and end times. With reference to case studies Don’t Follow the Wind (Chim↑Pom 2015) and Conversations (at the end of the world) (Verdonck 2017), it explores the relationship between dramaturgy and politics in what is called ‘radically dead art’. I argue for the importance of making the materiality of the performance visible as a way of addressing the connections between neoliberalism and ecological disaster.