1st Edition

Curating Dramaturgies How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts

Edited By Peter Eckersall, Bertie Ferdman Copyright 2021
214 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

214 Pages 46 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Curating Dramaturgies investigates the transformation of art and performance and its impact on dramaturgy and curatorship. Addressing contexts and processes of the performing arts as interconnecting with visual arts, this book features interviews with leading curators, dramaturgs and programmers who are at the forefront of working in, with, and negotiating the daily practice of interdisciplinary... Read more

1 A Way of Living and Coexisting

Interview with Rita Aquino and Felipe De Assis

2 To Create a ‘State of Being’ on Stage

Interview with Kristof Van Baarle

3 We’re not Idle Witnesses

Interview with Marc Bamuthi Joseph

4 In the Belly of the Political Beast

Interview with Ron Berry

5 To be a Critic of our own Practice

Interview with Philip Bither

6 What is the DNA behind this?

Interview with Lili Chopra

7 The Object of my Inquiry

Interview with Gurur Ertem

8 We don’t Travel with Headlights but we Leave Tiny Traces

Interview with Fernando José García Barros

9 The Complexity of Various Registers

Interview with Judy Hussie-Taylor

10 Will the Flirting Continue?

Interview with Ana Janevski

11 How can one Employ Strategies from Theater as Curatorial Strategies?

Interview with Florian Malzacher

12 Everybody has a Space in the Circle

Interview with Emilie Monnet

13 Acts of Self-Preservation

Interview with Gabi Ngcobo

14 Just Responding to History is Never Enough

Interview with Chiaki Soma

15 A Different Kind of Politics to the Table

Interview with Nato Thompson

Biography

Peter Eckersall is Professor of Theatre Studies in the PhD Program in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY and Honorary Professorial Fellow in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne.

Bertie Ferdman is Associate Professor at BMCC at CUNY.