9th Annual Curating Performance Symposium

Guest speakers: Katherine C. M. Adams (EMPAC), Adrienne Edwards (Whitney Museum), T. Lax (MoMA), Diane Lima (independent curator)

For this 9th edition of our Annual Curating Performance Symposium, the invitation was for our four distinguished guests to gather more or less formally, more or less informally, around their experiences, their practices and their concerns regarding curation and regarding performance; regarding the performance that is curation. What does it mean to want to bring some-thing(s) / some-one(s) into a room, i.e., into the open? What does it mean to want to invite some act/action into the world, i.e., towards the public? As we invite four highly influential curators working at the confluence of live performance, visual arts, critical discourse, and Black Study to our Performance Studies studio, we also want to ask the event’s audience: what do we want to bring to our room in this performance of gathering; how do we want to establish grounds for a conversation, indeed for a symposium, to occur, in dialogue and in openness, around (non)performance and its (non)curation?

The 9th Annual Curating Performance Symposium is sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies and by the Center for Research & Study, Tisch School of the Arts.

*** To read the bios of the guest speakers visit the event page on the PS Website: https://tisch.nyu.edu/performance-studies/events/ay-2024-25/9th-annual-curating-performance-symposium

Host or Publisher NYU’s Performance Studies Department