Curation, co-imagination, situation, performance: tales from the field

André Lepecki is full Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.

Editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including Of the Presence of the Body (2004), Dance (2012) and Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (with Marta Dziewanska, 2016). As independent performance curator, he has created projects for HKW-Berlin, MoMA-Warsaw, the Hayward Gallery, Haus der Künst-Munich, Sydney Biennial 2016, among others. Author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (2006, translated into eleven languages), and of Singularities: dance in the age of performance (2016). AICA-US award “Best Performance” 2008 for co-curating and directing the authorized redoing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (a commission of Haus der Kunst 2006, performed at PERFORMA 07).

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André Lepecki is full Professor and Chairperson at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University.

Editor of several anthologies on dance and performance theory including Of the Presence of the Body (2004), Dance (2012) and Points of Convergence: alternative views on performance (with Marta Dziewanska, 2016). As independent performance curator, he has created projects for HKW-Berlin, MoMA-Warsaw, the Hayward Gallery, Haus der Künst-Munich, Sydney Biennial 2016, among others. Author of Exhausting Dance: performance and the politics of movement (2006, translated into eleven languages), and of Singularities: dance in the age of performance (2016). AICA-US award “Best Performance” 2008 for co-curating and directing the authorized redoing of Allan Kaprow’s 18 Happenings in 6 Parts (a commission of Haus der Kunst 2006, performed at PERFORMA 07).

The talk will approach the question of how to curate experimental performance by addressing a series of works that André Lepecki has curated in the recent past. Those works, by Trajal Harrell, William Pope.L, and Maria Jose Arjona, all hover between dance, theatre, installation, happening, body art, social sculpture, and social choreography. As such, in their aesthetic singularities, they tend to catalyze and precipitate a series of para-events that pose challenges for institutions, the public, and to the very notion of curating. The three “tales from the field” that Lepecki will share will indicate how, in many ways, curation is a matter of co-imagining not just with the artist, but with a series of invisible forces and nonhuman matters shaping the field of representation, presentation, and spectatorship.

André Lepecki

Curation, co-imagination, situation, performance: tales from the field – Curating Performance II

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