Sofia Varino, PhD, is a queer activist, author and lecturer based in Berlin. With a focus on transdisciplinary ecologies, Varino’s research and teaching cut across the environmental and medical humanities; queer, decolonial and feminist STS; visual culture; and transdisciplinary gender studies. Varino has published on ecology, health, technology, media and gender in leading academic journals including Catalyst (forthcoming), SHIMA, Somatechnics, European Journal of Women’s Studies and Women’s Studies Quarterly. Their recent book Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023), co-written with May Joseph, is a study of global environmental politics.
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Aquatopia: Climate Interventions (Routledge, 2023) documents over a decade of participatory urban ecology projects by Harmattan Theater, an environmental performance ensemble based in New York City. Co-authored by Harmattan’s founding director May Joseph and associate director Sofia Varino, Aquatopia offers a critical account of interspecies, transdisciplinary engagements with climate change, colonial histories, and public space in precarious water-bound sites.
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Directed by May Joseph (2013)
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.
