Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations xiii
4. PROLOGUE Bethinking One’s Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating xvi
5. Acknowledgments xxii
6. A Collective Introduction 1
7. A NOTE ON CURATORIAL STATEMENTS A Third Space: Chasing the Intangible 11
8. PART I Historical Framings
9. CHAPTER 1 From Content to Context: The Emergence of the Performance Curator 15
10. PRACTICAL SPACE Curiosity and Intuition 28
11. CHAPTER 2 Exhibiting Performances: Process and Valorization in When Attitudes Become Forms—Bern 1969 / Venice 2013 29
12. CHAPTER 3 Can We Curate Dance without Making a Festival? On Dance Curatorship and Its Shifting Borders 38
13. CHAPTER 4 Curating Performance from Africa on International Stages: Thoughts on Artistic Categories and Critical Discourse 46
14. PRACTICAL SPACE Untitled 57
15. CHAPTER 5 The Curating Nation: Emergence of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Cultural Politics 59
16. CHAPTER 6 The Curatorial Chronotope 71
17. PRACTICAL SPACE Layers 77
18. CHAPTER 7 More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance 78
19. PART II Ethical Proposals
20. CHAPTER 8 Dancing the Museum 89
21. CHAPTER 9 Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States 101
22. PRACTICAL SPACE Holy Motor—a Mechanical Metaphor Surrounding the Live Arts Curator 114
23. CHAPTER 10 Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced 116
24. CHAPTER 11 Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curators’ Piece 123
25. PRACTICAL SPACE Curating Liveness 132
26. CHAPTER 12 Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe 133
27. PART III The Artist-Curators
28. CHAPTER 13 The Artist-Curator, or the Philosophy of “Do-It-Yourself” 141
29. EMBODIED SPACE “Soft-Curation,” Pollination, and Rhizomes 147
30. CHAPTER 14 Being in the Vanguard of Sensibility: Artists as Curators in Performing Arts— a Study of Collective Affect 149
31. CHAPTER 15 Familias: Artist-Activist Curation in the South Bronx, New York 155
32. CHAPTER 16 What We Talk About When We Talk About Curating the “Unexpected” 166
33. EMBODIED SPACE Greater Than 172
34. 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 173
35. CHAPTER 18 Making Stage: Contemporary Dance and Performance Curation in the Caribbean 182
36. EMBODIED SPACE As We 192
37. CHAPTER 19 The Work of the Musician-Curator in Relation to the “Concert Scenario” 194
38. CHAPTER 20 Pseudo-, Anti-, and Total Dance: A Self-Interview on Curation 204
39. CHAPTER 21 Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with Body Slam 213
40. PART IV Exhibition as Events
41. CHAPTER 22 A New Kind of Critical Elsewhere 223
42. CHAPTER 23 Re-enact History? Performing the Archive! 227
43. CHAPTER 24 Choreographing Archives, Curating Choreographers: Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and the Dance Retrospective 235
44. EMBODIED SPACE THE TITLE AS THE CURATOR’S ART PIECE 249
45. CHAPTER 25 Exhibiting Dance, Performing Objects: Cultural Mediation in the Museum 251
46. CHAPTER 26 The Curator’s Work: Stories and Experiences from Tino Sehgal’s Events 263
47. PART V Artivism
48. CHAPTER 27 Framing a Network, Charting Dis/Courses: Performance Curation, Community Work, and the Logic/Anxieties of an Emerging Field 275
49. ETHICAL SPACE Curate 282
50. CHAPTER 28 Food=Need: Constraints, Reflexivity, and Community Performance 283
51. CHAPTER 29 ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts: Memory, Catastrophe, Resistance, and Oblivion 287
52. CHAPTER 30 Collective Walks / Spaces of Contestation: Site-Specifi city, Community Involvement, and Mobility Employed as Curatorial Strategies in the Creation of Participatory Performances 292
53. CHAPTER 31 Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in the Distributed Public Sphere 303
54. ETHICAL SPACE Curation as a Practice of Radical Care: A Defi nition 311
55. PART VI Institutional Reinventions
56. CHAPTER 32 Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Curators in a New Interdisciplinary Age 315
57. C HAPTER 33 The Curator as a Culture Producer 320
58. ETHICAL SPACE Definition of Curation 327
59. 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 329
60. CHAPTER 35 The Curatorial Gesture as a Decolonial Gesture 340
61. ETHICAL SPACE Proposing Intervals— Curating as Choreography 346
62. CHAPTER 36 Are You Not Entertained? Curating Performance within the Institution 348
63. CHAPTER 37 Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics 355
64. ETHICAL SPACE Curating History, Curating Resistance 361
65. CHAPTER 38 What Can Contemporary Art Perform? And Then Transgress? 363
66. EPILOGUE Situation Critical: What Comes Next for the Field of Performance Curation? 372
67. ETHICAL SPACE The Parable of the Curator MICHEL HERRERIA (DRAWING) AND JEAN-PAUL RATHIER (TEXT) 377
68. Index 379