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

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• 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 o...

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