Curating Live Arts : : Critical Perspectives, Essays, and Conversations on Theory and Practice / / ed. by Dena Davida, Marc Pronovost, Véronique Hudon, Jane Gabriels.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Adewole, Funmi,; Bagué, Arnaldo Rodríguez,; Bawin, Julie,; Bither, Philip,; Bottiroli, Silvia,; Brandstetter, Gabriele,; Breault, Marie-Hélène,; Chamberlain, Travis,; Charmatz, Boris,; Chhangur, Emelie,; Currier, Shoshona,; Das, Jareh,; Davida, Dena,; Defrantz, Thomas F.,; Dickinson, Peter,; Doonan, Natalie,; Ferdman, Bertie,; Forget, Nadège Grebmeier,; Forté, Marie Claire,; Gabriels, Jane,; Giasson, Steve,; Hafez, Adham,; Henry, Joseph,; Hudon, Véronique,; Hussie-Taylor, Judy,; Jackson, Naomi M.,; Keil, Marta,; Kosoko, Jaamil,; Kurz, Julia,; Laporte, Xavier,; Mackenzie, Victoria,; Maltais-Bayda, Fabien,; Malzacher, Florian,; Martin, Nicole L.,; McCurdy, Erin Joelle,; Mcfadden, Syreeta,; Mohr-Blakeney, Victoria,; Morrison, Harun,; Orte, Mariane Bourcheix-Lap,; Patterson, Pam,; Pearson, Deborah,; Pineda, Roselle,; Pronovost, Marc,; Rasmussen, Rie Hovmann,; Ricci, Elisa,; Sachs, Isabel,; Selinger, Gregory,; Sellar, Tom,; Sheriff, Yves,; Simard, Helen,; Steinwald, Michèle,; Søndergaard, Morten,; Tak, Claudia Chan,; Takiguchi, Ken,; Thomas, Makeda,; Tonizzo, Cécile,; Tupajić, Tea,; Tórz, Kasia,; Von Bismarck, Beatrice,; White, Roger,; Wren, Jacob,; Zanki, Petra,
• HerausgeberIn: Davida, Dena,; Gabriels, Jane,; Hudon, Véronique,; Pronovost, Marc,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (382 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- PROLOGUE Bethinking One’s Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating -- Acknowledgments -- A Collective Introduction -- A NOTE ON CURATORIAL STATEMENTS A Third Space: Chasing the Intangible -- PART I Historical Framings -- CHAPTER 1 From Content to Context: The Emergence of the Performance Curator -- PRACTICAL SPACE Curiosity and Intuition -- CHAPTER 2 Exhibiting Performances: Process and Valorization in When Attitudes Become Forms—Bern 1969 / Venice 2013 -- CHAPTER 3 Can We Curate Dance without Making a Festival? On Dance Curatorship and Its Shifting Borders -- CHAPTER 4 Curating Performance from Africa on International Stages: Thoughts on Artistic Categories and Critical Discourse -- PRACTICAL SPACE Untitled -- CHAPTER 5 The Curating Nation: Emergence of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Cultural Politics -- CHAPTER 6 The Curatorial Chronotope -- PRACTICAL SPACE Layers -- CHAPTER 7 More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance -- PART II Ethical Proposals -- CHAPTER 8 Dancing the Museum -- CHAPTER 9 Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States -- PRACTICAL SPACE Holy Motor—a Mechanical Metaphor Surrounding the Live Arts Curator -- CHAPTER 10 Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced -- CHAPTER 11 Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curators’ Piece -- PRACTICAL SPACE Curating Liveness -- CHAPTER 12 Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe -- PART III The Artist-Curators -- CHAPTER 13 The Artist-Curator, or the Philosophy of “Do-It-Yourself” -- EMBODIED SPACE “Soft-Curation,” Pollination, and Rhizomes -- CHAPTER 14 Being in the Vanguard of Sensibility: Artists as Curators in Performing Arts— a Study of Collective Affect -- CHAPTER 15 Familias: Artist-Activist Curation in the South Bronx, New York -- CHAPTER 16 What We Talk About When We Talk About Curating the “Unexpected” -- EMBODIED SPACE Greater Than -- 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 -- CHAPTER 18 Making Stage: Contemporary Dance and Performance Curation in the Caribbean -- EMBODIED SPACE As We -- CHAPTER 19 The Work of the Musician-Curator in Relation to the “Concert Scenario” -- CHAPTER 20 Pseudo-, Anti-, and Total Dance: A Self-Interview on Curation -- CHAPTER 21 Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with Body Slam -- PART IV Exhibition as Events -- CHAPTER 22 A New Kind of Critical Elsewhere -- CHAPTER 23 Re-enact History? Performing the Archive! -- CHAPTER 24 Choreographing Archives, Curating Choreographers: Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and the Dance Retrospective -- EMBODIED SPACE THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR’S ART PIECE -- CHAPTER 25 Exhibiting Dance, Performing Objects: Cultural Mediation in the Museum -- CHAPTER 26 The Curator’s Work: Stories and Experiences from Tino Sehgal’s Events -- PART V Artivism -- CHAPTER 27 Framing a Network, Charting Dis/Courses: Performance Curation, Community Work, and the Logic/Anxieties of an Emerging Field -- ETHICAL SPACE Curate -- CHAPTER 28 Food=Need: Constraints, Reflexivity, and Community Performance -- CHAPTER 29 ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts: Memory, Catastrophe, Resistance, and Oblivion -- CHAPTER 30 Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation: Site-Specifi city, Community Involvement, and Mobility Employed as Curatorial Strategies in the Creation of Participatory Performances -- CHAPTER 31 Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in the Distributed Public Sphere -- ETHICAL SPACE Curation as a Practice of Radical Care: A Defi nition -- PART VI Institutional Reinventions -- CHAPTER 32 Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Curators in a New Interdisciplinary Age -- C HAPTER 33 The Curator as a Culture Producer -- ETHICAL SPACE Definition of Curation -- 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, and Livia Andrea Piazza, initiated by Silvia Bottiroli and Berno Odo Polze -- CHAPTER 35 The Curatorial Gesture as a Decolonial Gesture -- ETHICAL SPACE Proposing Intervals— Curating as Choreography -- CHAPTER 36 Are You Not Entertained? Curating Performance within the Institution -- CHAPTER 37 Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics -- ETHICAL SPACE Curating History, Curating Resistance -- CHAPTER 38 What Can Contemporary Art Perform? And Then Transgress? -- EPILOGUE Situation Critical: What Comes Next for the Field of Performance Curation? -- ETHICAL SPACE The Parable of the Curator MICHEL HERRERIA (DRAWING) AND JEAN-PAUL RATHIER (TEXT) -- Index