ABSTRACT
Mobilizing Catherine Chin’s concept-method of “historical radiance” (2017) to articulate the uncanny strangeness of the distant historical past, the author proposes Harmattan Theater’s climate interventions as instances of environmental radiance that seek to defamiliarize and render estrange the lived environment. Harmattan’s performative queer decolonial ecologies rely on an ethos of collective experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration with the nonhuman, shaking the habitual assumptions of Western epistemological models by seeking to summon a sense of wondrous ecological alterity.
