Searching for the Captain’s House

“Searching for the Captain’s House” is the documentation of interwoven histories. Family histories, family vacations, and the relationships that solidify or erode across the years. Natural histories, local histories, and geologies shift with the tides. It is also a meditation on taking and viewing photographs – specifically vacation photographs – as one approach to participating in broader, post-anthropocentric/new materialist conversations afoot in performance studies (and the Humanities more generally). This piece uses photography and autoethnographic writing to explore the personal and performative dimensions of a new materialist perspective that examines the ontological foundations of performance as a more-than-human enterprise.KEYWORDS: Autoethnographynew materialistvacation photographyclimate changememory Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by Catawba College Summer Research Award

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