SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT

  Abstract: This talk will present two overlapping projects, one of which is explicitly curatorial, and both of which address the relationship between queer (as a discourse and identification), performance, and history: Amelia Jones’s single authored book In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance and her curatorial project Queer Communion: Ron Athey. What is “queer performance” generally speaking? Can queer performance (for example, the work of Los Angeles-based Ron Athey) be “curated” into a gallery space, given the proximity and duration of live art in its original forms? Questions of community, queer survivance in the face of precarity, as well as the genealogies of the core concepts of “queer” and “performance” will be addressed.     Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of Academics and Research in Roski School of Art & Design, USC. Recent publications include Seeing Differently: A History and Theory of Identification an...

  LECTURE ///  Kirsten Maar,   junior- professor at   Institute for Theatre Studies, Free University, Berlin,   dance scholar and dramaturge/// On the Interventionist Potential of New Formats in Contemporary Dance and Performance The presentation aims at a historiographical informed understanding of new formats of practice and presentation, which change the relationship between production and reception in an interventionist manner. Intervention in this context is not only defined as an activist approach, but rather in the micropolitics of constant change in “minor keys” – between belonging and becoming (Stengers 2005).   Kirsten Maar works as a dance scholar and dramaturge. Currently she is a junior-professor at the Dance Department at Free University Berlin. Her research fields are the intersections between visuals arts, architecture and choreography, ethics of curating and dramaturgy, social choreographies, scoring practices and composition. Among...