The essays in this volume explore the borderland between ecology and the arts. Nature is here read by a number of contributors as cultural, by others as an independent domain, or even as a powerful process of exchange between the human and the other-than-human . The four parts of the volume reflect these different understandings of nature and performance. Informed by psychoanalysis and cultural materialism, contributors to the first part, Spectacle: Landscape and Subjectivity, look at ways in which particular social and scientific experiments, theatre and film productions and photography...