List of illustrations
Prologue: Bethinking One's Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating
Florian Malzacher
Acknowledgments
A Collective Introduction
Dena Davida, Jane Gabriels, Veronique Hudon, and Marc Pronovost
A NOTE ON CURATORIAL STATEMENTS-A THIRD SPACE: CHASING THE INTANGIBLE
Michele 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 Forte
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
Cecile Tonizzo
Chapter 10. Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/ or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
Michele Steinwald
Chapter 11. Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curator's Piece
Tea Tupajic & 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 Torz
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
Nadege Grebmeier Forget
Chapter 19. The Work of the Musician-Curator and the Notion of the Concert Scenario
Marie-Helene 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
Veronique 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 Sondergaard
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 Bague
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
Veronique 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)
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