... 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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

.... Photo: Monica Santos Herberg Up Front The Cure Tom Sellar This issue of Theater — the first of two on the subject — consists primarily of interviews (and a photo dossier) from seven performance curators. It is surprising how little has been published about curators, at least in English...

... simply book in the way that you could Julie zines especially played a very big role in that. Yves Klein (Extended Harris in The Belle of Amherst, which intro- It’s hard to say that there’s a lot of that kind of Paintbrush) by duces itself to the audience. There’s a lot of performance curation...

...: performance studies at New York University. Performance, Culture, Technology, a research He is an independent curator working on group that explores emerging technology in dance and performance and the author...

...: performance studies at New York University. Performance, Culture, Technology, a research He is an independent curator working on group that explores emerging technology in dance and performance and the author...

... issues of representation and ghettoization of artists to the challenges of the so-called white cube phenomenon. © 2017 by Sigrid Gareis and Tilmann Broszat 2017 global contemporary performance curation spielart Festival Show Me the World white cube “Show Me The World,” Haus der Kunst...

... of that movement. In the past decade, Theater published two editions supporting the practices and potential of the performance curator ( Performance Curators, 2014, coedited by Bertie Ferdman and Tom Sellar, and Curating Crisis, 2017, in association with Haus der Kunst and the SpielArt Festival in Munich...

... question is about this recent bringing and adding to it? And I think this fascination with the performance curator. Do you change is really enormous. see this as a good thing, as a sign of change in the way we present and organize performance, or do It seems that there are two large ideas that have...

... tangents, white gallery spaces, which, as a performance and it has now very different archives within curator, I had some challenge using, really. it. From that collection, I select approximately Often the live work I was making was not twenty recordings, which then play out in a invited into those...

... the next term. If we just Chantal Mouffe. We began by discussing the recent exchange one word for another and are satis- proliferation of the term curation in a performing fied with what we are doing, then it’s useless. arts context. — TS We should probably think...

... curatorial reason, and question the assumed hierarchies of artists, objects, and subjects inherent within traditional curatorial practice. © 2017 by André Lepecki 2017 Lygia Clark postcolonial studies performance curation Jacques Rancière Fred Moten Wendy Brown neoliberalism Lygia Clark’s...

... whether other that took up the whole Atrium, and there curators, in other fields, experience this, or if it’s the was only a little space where an audience special province of the performance curator...

..., poetics, and the ethical compass that guides them, with the demands of integrated worldwide capitalism and its contemporary power in the field of art. © 2017 by Suely Rolnik 2017 performance curation colonial-capitalistic unconcious postcolonial studies knowing-body Lygia Clark Caminhando...

...Hannah Hurtzig © 2014 by Yale School of Drama/Yale Repertory Theatre 2014 Portfolio Black Market Knowledge Performances curated and introduced by Hannah Hurtzig The installation works by Hannah Hurtzig and Mobile Academy Berlin showcased in this portfolio of photographs deal...

... curators, presenters, and producers to reevaluate the received notion of “site-­specific theater.” They responded to a series of questions about whether the term provides a meaningful context for their own bodies of work, how they situate their performance projects in relation to the category’s...

... of performance, do not affiliate them- selves with any specific discipline. Examples include sismo in Madrid, mapa in Italy, and citemor in Portugal. More and more, we are seeing presenting institutions hiring “performance” curators and producers in museum galleries. (The tendency goes both ways: Sophie...