LECTURE - Silke Bake: In-between (what we are used to believe in and what we actually execute)

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LECTURE - Silke Bake: In-between (what we are used to believe in and what we actually execute)

There is no such thing as curating outside context. Programming performing arts takes place in a specific region, city, district, institution, time, political environment, etc. It is embedded in current discourses and in the historiography of one's field/discipline. It is made by and with certain people, within institutions and social frames, charged with narratives and economies. Curating performing arts should also focus on modes of production, how art works are being produced and developed. This includes economical or ethical questions, parameters of sustainability, power relations within a team, shared authorship, etc. All these aspects resonate in art works (and their reception). Contemporary dance/performing arts have furthermore shaped a number of job profiles the protagonists of which, such as curators, are mostly living and working under the same precarious conditions as artists do. Nevertheless, curators are often being addressed in the same ways as institutions - for they seem to have and to exercise a superior power position.

This lecture will address questions of how to define these (work) relationships between the various players that have emerged in this web of positions, resources and affinities. By means of own programs – focusing on a city and the artists who are working within (f.e. Tanznacht Berlin) or coming from outside and knowing little about a city and its scene - this lecture is about understanding how much the working methods nourish topics, curated programs, aesthetics and work ethics, and what kind of working relationships are formed by them - and vice versa.

 

Documents:

Bake, Silke_examples.pdf

Bake, Silke_texts&links.pdf


Silke Bake lives in Berlin, and works as curator, dramaturge and mentor. She has worked for diverse institutions (including TAT Frankfurt, Hebbel-Theater Berlin, Tanzquartier Wien) and realized programs for the House of World Cultures, the Academy of the Arts Berlin, Kanuti Gildi Saal Tallinn and Theaterformen Hannover/ Braunschweig. She worked as the dramaturge and project manager for the performing arts festival IN TRANIST at House of World Cultures in 2008 & 2009, she was the co-curator of the biennial NU Performance Festival On Hospitality on the occasion of the cultural capital program of Tallinn 2011, and of performance platform. body affects at Sophiensaele Berlin 2012, and the artistic director of the biennial program Tanznacht Berlin in 2016 (companions) & 2018 (Out of the Echo Chamber). In 2018, she was guest professor at the MA program SODA / HZT Berlin. Together with colleagues she is continuously working on formats for discussion and discourse.



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