Abstract
Curation, as an emerging research paradigm in Performance Studies, focuses on the process of selection and framing, the productive limitation of knowledge. The authors explore performance curation in terms of how artists and performances negotiate these expanding spaces and audiences and how this inter-city space of performance challenges the ‘international’. They draw comparisons between the practices of curation and pedagogy. The chapter stages two examples of curation that bring the ‘inter-city’ to the fore.
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‘Curational’ is used to distinguish it from the ‘curatorial’, a concept which refers to the activities of the ‘curator’ as a professional figure in the cultural field. The concept is further elaborated in van Heugten’s doctoral research.
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Curriculum also designates a ‘fast chariot or a racing car’. It has been in use as a Latin word in English since the 1630s at Scottish universities.
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Ruth Walker questions the inflation of the back-formation to curate, and offers a striking anecdote: ‘Oxford’s earliest citation from the press is from the Daily Telegraph of 1969, “All London Zoo’s mammals were being curated with tremendous flair.” (I can barely imagine what that was supposed to mean. How do you break the news to an elephant that henceforth he’s going to be “curated”?)’ (2013).
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Oxford English Dictionary http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/45960.
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Walker, R. (2013). ‘Really? We’re all Curators Now?’ Christian Science Monitor, 17 December.
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For an overview of the rise of curating in the visual arts, see Paul O’Neill’s ‘The Curatorial Turn. From Practice to Discourse’ (2007).
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We have chosen to name this previously untitled in-class performance ‘a kissing scene’.
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One notion of performance as ‘to furnish forth’ or ‘to complete’ derives from the 16th Century French etymological root ‘parfournir’ (Taylor 2003, p. 3).
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The explanation of the title is taken from the festival website: http://www.crosschannels.habi-web.org/
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Bharadwaj, G., van Heugten, L. (2017). Co-curating the Curriculum: On the Politics of International Performance Pedagogy. In: Bala, S., Gluhovic, M., Korsberg, H., Röttger, K. (eds) International Performance Research Pedagogies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53943-0_15
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