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Hello! I am Sofia Varino, an author and activist based in Berlin. I work in the field of transdisciplinary ecologies with a focus on planetary health and intersectional social justice. My new book Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), a study of environmental ethics and aesthetics co-written with May Joseph, is out now.
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Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) documents Harmattan Theater’s environmental performances since 2010, tracing our engagements with climate change, colonial histories, and public space across New York City, Venice, Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Cochin.
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RECENT WORK
My recent publications include Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), co-written with May Joseph and a chapter featured in the Bloomsbury Handbook to the Medical-Environmental Humanities. I have co-edited a special issue of Somatechnics on data and gender in the life sciences.
I have published in leading academic journals including SHIMA, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies, and Women’s Studies Quarterly. My poetry has appeared in literary magazines like Poetry Wales, The Hythe, Blood Sweat and Tears and Poetry International, and my pamphlet Natural Language came out with Dancing Girl Press in 2017.
I am currently working on a book project about the long genealogies of the Covid pandemic across environmental, disability and racial justice contexts.
RESEARCH
I have presented my research at over 50 international conferences and organized or moderated plenaries, panels and workshops.
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PERFORMANCE
Since 2003, I have performed at numerous venues, festivals and events, including Performa, the Whitney Museum, MoMA PS1, WOW Cafe Theater, Leslie Lohman Museum, Art in Odd Places, the Støros Music Festival and the Osaka Queer Film Festival.
I have performed solo and in collaboration with Harmattan Theater, CUMUL, The Hungry Hearts and The Holy.
You can find documentation of some of my performances in the Gallery.
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TEACHING
I have taught and guest lectured at various universities and institutions.
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FROM THE ARCHIVE
FROM THE ARCHIVE
Far Rockaway was performed by Harmattan Theater on the anniversary of 9/11 in 2013, at Tribute Park, a NYC public park built as a memorial tribute to the over three hundred firefighters who died in the World Trade Center in 2001. The Park was washed away by Hurricane Sandy. Harmattan performed at the Park to mark the onslaught of Hurricane Sandy on the Far Rockaway peninsular, particularly Beach 116, which was entirely destroyed by the storm surge.
ASLE 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) by May Joseph and Sofia Varino was selected for the ASLE 2023 Spotlight by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.