Climate HumanitiesPerformance StudiesOral TraditionAnthropocene MythComplicit Praxis

MYTH, PERFORMANCE and AI

A Methodology for the Climate Chaos Cruise

Abstract

This paper sets out the performance methodological foundations for the Climate Chaos Cruise: a four-month durational TikTok performance series running January to April 2028. The durational art performance will be filmed on a storm beach in Borth, Ceredigion, Wales. It is developed on a mythological architecture drawn from the Proto-Indo-European oral tradition stable from which both Homer's Odyssey and Norse cosmology descend as cognate daughter branches. The paper argues for myth as a documented alternative mechanism to direct climate communication; for practice-based performance research. It uses oral performance art as the mode of knowledge generation for adaptation claims that require embodied, durational transmission. It takes the ancient concept of human oral tradition into Complicit Praxis in a post AI world. A living transmission system, one that has moved across five millennia of changing media, from the mouth to the scroll, from the printed page to the screen, from broadcast to the attention economy, without losing the structural core that makes it recognisable. These stories have witnessed civilisations rise and fall and will do again. This is the core of the climate chaos cruise; survival. Section 2 establishes the shared Indo-European root of the project's mythological architecture as foundational, drawing on West (2007), Watkins (1995), and Puhvel (1987); addresses the specific functions of the Odyssey and Norse cosmology as daughter-tradition expressions of that root; and grounds the researcher's use of both in documented genealogical inheritance rather than cross-cultural borrowing.

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