http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=8648&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dance-and-the-museum-noemie-lafrance-responds Critical Correspondence is an artist-driven project of Movement Research that aims to activate, develop and increase the visibility of critical discourse on dance and movement-based performance work. Wed, 15 Oct 2014 18:27:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.29 http://old.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=8648&cpage=1#comment-557166 Wed, 12 Feb 2014 16:15:10 +0000 http://www.movementresearch.org/criticalcorrespondence/blog/?p=8648#comment-557166 I share this scepticism with Noèmie and others who have been writing on this recent spate of “denatured insertions” of dance into museum frameworks, and agree that a healthy critical analysis of motives is necessary. It is also useful to think about the future of global art worlds, with their local histories and “alternative modernities”, and to question the systems that are running these arts presentation and exhibition events.
As one answer to the problem, we are currently developing the profession of performing arts curation (see acaq.ca) with the notion of creating a university programme in Montréal (as they have done at Wesleyan University with the ICPP programme), a body of literature, discourse and community for the profession, so that it’s nature and function might one day be determined by curators who are arts and community advocates rather than those with a business model in mind. Arts administrators, I believe, must support artistic visions rather than drive programming.
When this day comes, visual and performing arts curators will be sitting together at international conferences, panels and symposiums and there will finally be some in-depth and insightful cross-disciplinary discussion about the interpenetration of art forms, their creation, production and presentation.

]]>