Overview

Situated at the crossroads of performance practice, museology, and cultural studies, live arts curation has grown in recent years to become a vibrant interdisciplinary project and a genuine global phenomenon. Curating Live Arts brings together bold and innovative essays from an international group of theorist-practitioners to pose vital questions, propose future visions, and survey the landscape of this rapidly evolving discipline. Reflecting the field’s characteristic eclecticism, the writings assembled here offer practical and insightful investigations into the curation of theatre, dance, sound art, music, and other performance forms—not only in museums, but in community, site-specific, and time-based contexts, placing it at the forefront of contemporary dialogue and discourse.

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Author:   Dena Davida ,  Marc Pronovost ,  Véronique Hudon ,  Jane Gabriels
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
ISBN:  

9781785339639

ISBN 10:   178533963
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   29 November 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of illustrations Prologue: Bethinking One’s Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating Florian Malzacher Acknowledgments A Collective Introduction Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon, and Marc Pronovost A NOTE ON CURATORIAL STATEMENTS—A THIRD SPACE: CHASING THE INTANGIBLE Michèle Steinwald and Michael Trent PART I: HISTORICAL FRAMINGS Chapter 1. From Context to Concept: The Emergence of the Performance Curator Bertie Ferdman CURIOSITY AND INTUITION Marie Claire Forté Chapter 2. Exhibiting Performances: Process and Valorisation in When Attitudes Become Forms—Bern 1969 / Venice 2013 Beatrice von Bismarck Chapter 3. Can We Curate Dance without Making a Festival?: On Dance Curatorship and Its Shifting Borders Elisa Ricci Chapter 4. Curating Performance from Africa for International Stages: Thoughts on Artistic Categories and Critical Discourse ‘Funmi Adewole with Jareh Das UNTITLED Isabel Sachs Chapter 5. The Curating Nation: Emergence of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Cultural Politics Ken Takiguchi Chapter 6. The Curatorial Chronotope Peter Dickinson LAYERS Harun Morrison Chapter 7. More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance Judy Hussie-Taylor PART II: ETHICAL PROPOSALS Chapter 8. Dancing the Museum Thomas F. DeFrantz Chapter 9. Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States Naomi Jackson HOLY MOTOR—A MECHANICAL METAPHOR SURROUNDING THE LIVE ARTS CURATOR Cécile Tonizzo Chapter 10. Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/ or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced Michèle Steinwald Chapter 11. Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curator’s Piece Tea Tupajić & Petra Zanki CURATING LIVENESS Victoria Mohr-Blakeney Chapter 12. Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe Deborah Pearson PART III: THE ARTIST-CURATORS Chapter 13. The Artist-Curator, or the Philosophy of ‘Do-It-Yourself’ Julie Bawin ""SOFT CURATION,"" POLLINATION, AND RHIZOMES Yves Sheriff Chapter 14. Being in Vanguard of Sensibility: Artists as Curators in Performing Arts—A Study of Collective Affect Kasia Tórz Chapter 15. Familias: Artist-Activist Curation in the South Bronx, New York Jane Gabriels Chapter 16. What We Talk About When We Talk About Curating the ‘Unexpected’ Syreeta McFadden GREATER THAN Shoshona Currier Chapter 17. Because I love Art, I Want Art to be Different. The Project Perverse Curating and a Few Things I’ve Learned From It Jacob Wren Chapter 18. Making Stage: Contemporary Dance and Performance Curation in the Caribbean Makeda Thomas AS WE Nadège Grebmeier Forget Chapter 19. The Work of the Musician-Curator and the Notion of the ""Concert Scenario"" Marie-Hélène Breault Chapter 20. Pseudo-, Anti-, and Total Dance: A Self-Interview on Curation SALTA Chapter 21. Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with Body Slam Body Slam Dance Improv Collective: Gregory Selinger, Helen Simard, Roger White, Xavier Laporte, Victoria Mackenzie, and Claudia Chan Tak PART IV: EXHIBITIONS AS EVENTS Chapter 22. A New Kind of Critical Elsewhere Travis Chamberlain Chapter 23. Re-enact History? Performing the Archive! Julia Kurz Chapter 24. Choreographing Archives, Curating Choreographers: Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and the Dance Retrospective Fabien Maltais-Bayda and Joseph Henry THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR'S ART PIECE Steve Giasson Chapter 25. Exhibiting Dance, Performing Objects: Cultural Mediation in the Museum Erin Joelle McCurdy Chapter 26. The Curator’s Work: Stories and Experiences of Tino Sehgal’s Events Véronique Hudon PART V: ARTIVISM Chapter 27. Framing a Network, Charting Dis/Courses: Performance Curation, Community Work, and the Logic/Anxieties of an Emerging Field Roselle Pineda CURATE Natalie Doonan Chapter 28. Food=Need: Constraints, Reflexivity, and Community Performance Pam Patterson Chapter 29. ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts: Memory, Catastrophe, Resistance and Oblivion Adham Hafez Chapter 30. Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation: Site-Specificity, Community Involvement, and Mobility Employed as Curatorial Strategies in the Creation of Participatory Performances Mariane Bourcheix-Laporte Chapter 31. Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in the Distributed Public Sphere Morten Søndergaard CURATION AS A PRACTICE OF RADICAL CARE: A DEFINITION Nicole L. Martin PART VI: INSTITUTIONAL REINVENTIONS Chapter 32. Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Curators in a New Interdisciplinary Age Philip Bither Chapter 33. The Curator as a Culture Producer Marta Keil DEFINITION OF CURATION SALTA Chapter 34. How to Build a Manifesto for the Future of a Festival “Festivals as Thinking Entities,” a Conversation with Judith Blackenberg, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Silvia Bottiroli, Livia Andrea Piazza, initiated by Silvia Bottiroli and Berno Odo Polzer Silvia Bottiroli Chapter 35. The Curatorial Gesture as a Decolonial Gesture Arnaldo Rodriguez Bagué PROPOSING INTERVALS—CURATING AS CHOREOGRAPHY Gabriele Brandstetter Chapter 36. Are You Not Entertained?: Curating Performance within the Institution Rie Hovmann Rasmussen Chapter 37. Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics Véronique Hudon with Boris Charmatz CURATING HISTORY, CURATING RESISTANCE Jaamil Kosoko Chapter 38. What Can Contemporary Art Perform? And Then Transgress? Emelie Chhangur Epilogue: Situation Critical: What Comes Next for the Field of Performance Curation? Tom Sellar THE PARABLE OF THE CURATOR Michel Herreria (drawing) and Jean-Paul Rathier (text) Index

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This is a rich, global compilation of pieces that explore issues of power, community, inclusiveness, belonging, aesthetics, history, embodiment, epistemology, and pedagogy, all within the context of performance and the live arts. - Nicole Stanton, Wesleyan University

The outstanding group of researchers in this innovative book engage in a lucid flow of passion and creative power. Its narratives are drawn from experimental approaches grounded in their authors' rich lives. This anthology is comprised of unexpected revelations about curation that break the barriers of its canonic definitions, while remaining concerned with Beauty as a fundamental value and the live arts as a celebration of living. - Alma Salem, independent curator, Syria Sixth Space This is a rich, global compilation of pieces that explore issues of power, community, inclusiveness, belonging, aesthetics, history, embodiment, epistemology, and pedagogy, all within the context of performance and the live arts. - Nicole Stanton, Wesleyan University In seeking to reinvigorate one of the art world's most ubiquitous terms, Curating Live Arts both interrogates and celebrates the historical in tandem with new possibilities for intervention into the complex space between artists, arts workers, art projects, participants and audiences. It asks critical questions about the values, the sensibilities, and the preoccupations of curating the live arts, and includes writing from artists, curators, and activists working in politically urgent contexts far removed from the centres of 'high' art. This wide-ranging anthology makes an invaluable contribution to the complex aspirations of this ever-expanding field. - Sarah Miller, University of Wollongong

Author Information

Dena Davida co-founded, directed, and is currently the in-house curator of Tangente, Québec’s first dance presenting organization. She also co-founded the CanDance touring network, and co-founded and co-programmed the Festival international de nouvelle danse de Montréal from 1985 to 2005. She has taught at the Université du Québec à Montréal for over 25 years.

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