Curating live arts : critical perspectives, essays, and conversations on theory and practice /: critical perspectives, essays, and conversations on theory and practice. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon, and Marc Pronovost.
• Editors: Davida, Dena; Gabriels, Jane; Hudon, Véronique; Pronovost, Marc
• Contents: Prologue: Bethinking One’s Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating; Florian Malzacher Introduction: A Collective Introduction: Assembling a Seminal Collection on Live Arts Curation; Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Véronique Hudon, and Marc Pronovost PART I: HISTORICAL FRAMINGS Chapter 1. From Context to Concept: The Emergence of the Performance Curator; Bertie Ferdman Chapter 2. Exhibiting Performances, Process and Valorisation: ‘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. What Curating Can Offer Performance in Africa or the Aftermath of an Interview With Jareh Das; ‘Funmi Adewole, with Jareh Das Chapter 5. The Curating Nation: Development of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Regional Cultural Politics; Ken Takiguchi Chapter 6. The Curatorial Chronotope; Peter Dickinson Chapter 7. The Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance: More Myths, More Weirdness, More Joy; Judy Hussie-Taylor PART II: ETHICAL PROPOSALS Chapter 8. Dance in Museums; Thomas F. DeFrantz Chapter 9. Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States; Naomi Jackson 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 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 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 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 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: On Collectively Curating an Experimental Dance Series; SALTA Chapter 21. Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with the 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: The Dance Retrospective; Joseph Henry & Fabien Maltais-Bayda 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 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 PART VI: INSTITUTIONAL REINVENTIONS Chapter 32. The Principles, Provocations and Promise of a Transformational Moment; Philip Bither Chapter 33. Precarious Prestige: Curator as a Producer of Culture in Europe After the Year 1989; Marta Keil Chapter 34. Festivals as Thinking Entities; Judith Blackenberg, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Silvia Bottiroli, Livia Andrea Piazza, and Berno Odo Polzer Chapter 35. The Curatorial Gesture as a De-Colonialist Gesture; Arnaldo Rodriguez Bagué Chapter 36. Are You Not Entertained?: Curating Performance Within the Institution; Rie Hovmann Rasmussen Chapter 37. Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics; Boris Charmatz, Interview with Véronique Hudon 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 Curation Glossary Project: The Curation Glossary Project: Chasing the Intangible; Michèle Steinwald and Michael Trent ; ; 1. Practical space Marie Claire Forté Isabel Sachs Harun Morrison Cécile Tonizzo Victoria Mohr-Blakeney 2. Embodied space Yves Sheriff Shoshana Currier Nadège Grebmeier Forget Steve Giasson 3. Ethical space Natalie Doonan Nicole Martin SALTA Gabrielle Brandstetter Jaamil Kosoko Jean-Paul Rathier & Michel Herreria Index
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 790.2; Performing arts; Curatorship; SPORTS & RECREATION / General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 1789201349; 9781789201345; 9781785339646; 1785339648
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