International summer school Curating in Context
Public lecture/ Artists and curators talks
“Queer Communion/Queer Performance” / Online
Amelia G. Jones, Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean of
Academics and Research in Roski School of Art & Design, USC
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 and the Visual Arts (2012); Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories, co-edited with Erin Silver (2016). The catalogue Queer Communion: Ron Athey (2020), co-edited with Andy Campbell, and which accompanies a retrospective of Athey’s work at Participant Inc. (New York) and ICA (Los Angeles), has just been listed among “Best Art Books 2020” in the New York Times. Her book entitled In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance is published in 2021 by Routledge Press.
About the school:
International summer school Curating in Context is developed in order to respond to the challenges that the growing influence of the concepts of curating and curatorial posed in the contemporary art field, beyond the sphere of visual arts. It is related to the question of the curatorial and its extended understanding which goes beyond black or white box presentation and representation politics.
The program includes lectures, seminars, artists and curators’ talks, discussions and interviews, as well as production of curatorial works and co-curatorial publication.
The summer school is intended for:
Practitioners who would like to pursue their career as curators in the contemporary performing arts or through interdisciplinary approach, and who would like to critically address representation politics and develop curatorial methods related to practices of activism, self-organization and critical reflection.
Curating in Context began as an activity developed as part of the Erasmus + project Curating in context and its partners Tanzfabrik Berlin, Stockholm University of the Arts and University of Zagreb.
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This year, the Summer School Curating in Context/2021 is part of a collaboration with Brain Store Project in frame of Performance Situation Room activity of Life Long Burning project; supported by Creative Europe, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of North Macedonia and the City of Skopje.
Curating in Context is co-curated by Biljana Tanurovska–Kjulavkovski and Slavcho Dimitrov.
Lokomotiva team: program director Biljana Tanurovska Kjulavkovski, project manager Blagica Petrovska, program coordinators are Zorica Zafirovska and Kristina Todoroska Petreska, administrator Gjurgjica Hristovska and PR Dino Chupovski.
More about the program of the Summer School “Curating in Context” 2021
https://www.lokomotiva.org.mk/summer-school-program-2021/
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