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...

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...