... of the performance curator from the logistic concerns of programming to more conceptual work. © 2014 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2014 Kenneth Dewey at “The Theatre of the Future” conference, Edinburgh Festival, 1963. Photo: Courtesy of the Scotsman Publications Bertie Ferdman...

...Judy Hussie-Taylor; Ralph Lemon © 2014 by Judy Hussie-Taylor 2014 Ralph Lemon’s An All Day Event: The End, Danspace Project, New York, 2012. Photo: Ian Douglas Curation as Choreography A dialogue between Judy Hussie-­Taylor and Ralph Lemon judy hussie-taylor­   Very...

.... Courtesy of Park Avenue Armory Jane Cox and Tav ia Nyong o Sound & Color A Curators Introduction In 2021, one of us (Tavia) was approached by a major arts complex in New York City, the Park Avenue Armory on the Upper East Side, to reenvision their public program. Tavia chose to direct his curatorial...

... Exchange Rate , which was presented at the Fisher Center at Bard’s 2019 lab Biennial, Where No Wall Remains . El Khoury was a cocurator of the biennial and offers additional reflections on that process, which was her first experience curating an arts festival. Tania El Khoury s Cultural Exchange Rate, lab...

..., and the Kulturreferat der Landschauptstadt München. Up Front Curating Crisis Tom Sellar This is the second of two issues Theater is devoting to the curation of performance, a highly contested field whose current redefinition holds major implications for the- ater, dance, and other live forms. Our first...

..., in the act of throwing a plastic bag into the air. On the middle dumpster is a large sign reading, Stop. No Plastic Bags. No Se Permiten Bolsos. Jessica A. Cooley and Ann M. Fox Crip Curation as Care A Manifesto Ours is a conversational manifesto of care that perhaps raises more questions than answers...

...Nicholas Lowe Nicholas Lowe, curator of goat island archive—we have discovered the performance by making it , a retrospective held ten years after the twenty-three-year run of the company Goat Island, explains how his concept of archival performance developed in response to Goat Island’s past...

...Suely Rolnik In this article, Suely Rolnik positions the curator in the context of integrated worldwide capitalism, suggesting that the “colonial-capitalistic unconscious” tends to drive practices of curation across the globe. She highlights two different curatorial vectors and how these approaches...

... for concision and clarity.—Ed. Claudia La Rocco Dance, theater, and book critic and editor; poet; curator I started The Performance Club when I was the cultural correspondent at wnyc, a public radio station. The station had received a big grant with the mandate of fostering an online community...

...Tom Sellar In this article, Tom Sellar begins to define the mercurial role of the performance curator that has been emerging at the intersections of theatrical practice and the visual arts and their presentation. By linking the burgeoning prominence of curators with “a desire for strengthened...

... proposes decolonized curation as the imaginative affirmation of a wholly new collective sociability and finds a model for these relations in the notoriously “difficult to curate” art of Lygia Clark. As “wild things,” rather than objects of art, the works of Clark escape the colonized art system, offend...

...Sigrid Gareis; Tilmann Broszat In this piece, Gareis and Broszat discuss the need for a cross-cultural exchange regarding the practice of live art curation, a conversation that culminated in the 2015 project Show Me the World and the spielart Festival in Munich. At spielart , six invited curators...

...Thomas F. DeFrantz This essay begins by outlining the forces of assimilation and dissent within the history of black American performance artistry since the 1960s. DeFrantz proposes a shift in curators' priorities away from representing multiculturalism in national presenting organizations in favor...

..., Ntsikelelo “Boyzie” Cekwana, Brett Bailey, and Tebogo Munyai, among others, to examine questions of representation and the myth of the “postracial,” highlighting the uncomfortable position of live art curators that take contemporary South African protest movements as their subject. © 2017 by Jay Pather...

...Tom Sellar © 2014 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2014 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Tea Tupajić and Petra Zanki’s The Curator’s Piece (A Trial against Art), ps 122, New York, 2012...

... life there had to be a place for the drama, and therefore, a place outside of gal- norman frisch  My function as a curator leries. The work in the galleries could only be was within the antiquities department...

... of Experience Gavin Kroeber Interviewed by Tom Sellar tom sellar  Rather than starting with com- that its artists want to move into the white parisons of curating for the “black box” and the cube — despite the frustrations, challenges, “white cube,” I’d like to pose a question that per...

.... An art gallery with a podium and folding chairs set up for a talk. On the walls, joyce/curator A journalist / A curator. throughout the gallery are distinctive Caucasian. Female...

... of personal moment in the same way, but they might transition, when I was leaving my position as talk about something that happened in their the producing curator of the live arts program...

... arias  Your edition focuses on curat- ing the text with microphones, almost like a ing, but in reality curating is something I have voice-­over. The mother obviously interacted arrived at as a working artist, after working on with the baby. But the actors developed ways many projects. I started...