1st Edition
Curating Dramaturgies How Dramaturgy and Curating are Intersecting in the Contemporary Arts
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 live arts.
The book offers a view of praxis that combines perspectives on theory and practice and looks at the way that various arts institutions, practitioners and cultural agents have been working to change the way that art and performance have developed and experienced by spectators in the last decade.
Curating Dramaturgies argues that cultural producers and scholars are becoming more cognizant of this overlapping and transforming field. The introductory essay by the editors explores the rise of interdisciplinary live arts and its ramifications in cultural and political terms. This is further elaborated in the interviews with 15 diversely placed arts professionals who are at the forefront of rethinking and consolidatingthe ever-evolving field of the visual arts and performance.
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.