WORKSHOP by Danae Theorodiadu / Artificial Social Imaginaries: Curation of Live Events as Construction Sites for Social Alternatives

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WORKSHOP///

 by  Danae Theorodiadu, PhD in dramaturgy of contemporary theatre and dance from Roehampton University in London, performance maker and researcher based in Brussels///

Artificial Social Imaginaries: Curation of Live Events as Construction Sites for Social Alternatives///

 

 

 

 

Abstract:  Through a series of individual and group tasks of reading, writing, discussing, questioning, designing and testing, this workshop will involve participants in a critical process that aims to reflect on the relation between curatorial practices and the emergence of social alternatives to capitalism. In this frame, we will approach the design of any curatorial project as an artificial construction site for the creation of new social imaginaries, i.e. as a concrete alternative proposal about the way we imagine and practice our social coexistence. The act of curating will, thus, be worked as a practice that moves away from established norms and social habits; as the crafting of social encounters towards more imaginative, unknown directions, away from capitalist demands that strive for the ‘groundbreaking’, the ‘new’, the ‘successful’, the controllable, popular, profitable and effective product.

Key terms in our exploration will be the notions of ‘social imaginary’ (as this has been discussed by C. Castoriadis and other scholars), ‘dramaturgy as a working on actions’ (as discussed in The Practice of Dramaturgy – Working on Actions in Performance, a book co-authored by the workshop’s facilitator), ‘commoning’ (as a concrete practice within the discourse on ‘commons’), as well as the relation between art, crafts and materiality. Students will be asked to read in advance two texts related to such issues, which will be further discussed and worked in the workshop. In the same frame, students will also be asked to design and, at least partly, test different curatorial frames and exchange models that could act as artificial social imaginaries, through which they will attempt to detect the processes and working principles involved in such acts.

Reading list:

- D. Theodoridou, Performing Arts and Social Imagination - redefining art’s social role through the turn to collectively speculative processes:

- 3 Principles of dramaturgy,38-62

  

Danae Theodoridou is a performance maker and researcher based in Brussels. She studied literature and linguistics in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and acting in the National Theatre of Northern Greece. She completed her PhD on dramaturgy of contemporary theatre and dance at Roehampton University in London. The last years, her artistic work focuses on the notion of social imaginaries and the way art can contribute to the emergence of social and political alternatives. More recently, she looks particularly into the practice of democracy through performance. At the same time, Danae teaches in Fontys University of Applied Sciences (NL) and in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (GR), curates practice-led research projects and presents and publishes her research work internationally. She has been the co-creator of Dramaturgy at Work (2013-2016) and the co-author of The Practice of Dramaturgy: Working on Actions in Performance (Valiz, 2017). 

For more information: www.danaetheodoridou.com

 

 

About the school:

International summer school Curating in Context is developed in order to respond to the challenges that the growing influence of the concepts of curating and curatorial posed in the contemporary art field, beyond the sphere of visual arts. It is related to the question of the curatorial and its extended understanding which goes beyond black or white box presentation and representation politics.

The program includes lectures, seminars, artists and curators’ talks, discussions and interviews, as well as production of curatorial works and co-curatorial publication.

 

The summer school is intended for:

Practitioners who would like to pursue their career as curators in the contemporary performing arts or through interdisciplinary approach, and who would like to critically address representation politics and develop curatorial methods related to practices of activism, self-organization and critical reflection.

Curating in Context began as an activity developed as part of the Erasmus + project Curating in context and its partners Tanzfabrik Berlin, Stockholm University of the Arts and University of Zagreb.

 

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This year, the Summer School Curating in Context/2021 is part of a collaboration with Brain Store Project in frame of Performance Situation Room activity of Life Long Burning project, and it is supported by the Ministry of culture, City of Skopje and Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

Curating in Context is co-curated by Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski and Slavcho Dimitrov.

Lokomotiva team: program director Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, project manager Blagica Petrovska, program coordinators are Zorica Zafirovska and Kristina Todoroska Petreska, administrator Gjurgjica Hristovska and PR Dino Chupovski.

 

More about the program of the Summer School “Curating in Context” 2021

https://www.lokomotiva.org.mk/summer-school-program-2021/

 

 

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