SUMMER SCHOOL CURATING IN CONTEXT

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 soc...

  Danae Theodoridou: Artificial Social Imaginaries: Curation of Live Events as Construction Sites for Social Change Through a series of individual and group tasks of reading, writing, discussing, questioning, designing and testing, this workshop will involve students in a critical process that aims to reflect on the relation between curatorial practices and social change. In this frame, we will approach the design of any curatorial project as an artificial construction site for the creation of alternative 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...