Podcasts
Space of Intimacy: Curating Performance Post-Pandemic+info
10 JUL - 6pm (GMT)
The podcast features a conversation between Irene Campolmi, independent curator and researcher and Head Art Program at Enter Art Fair; Michelangelo Miccolis, curator, performer and artistic director of IMMATERIAL, the Performance Program of MATERIAL Art Fair in Mexico City; and Louise O'Kelly, curator and founder of BLOCK UNIVERSE, Annual Performance Independent Festival in London.
During the lockdown, the three curators have spontaneously gathered in zoom meetings to share their feelings, concerns and hopes raised by being isolated at home and having time to think about their practices. The curators reflect on the changes that the pandemic had brought to their curatorial practice and their understanding of performance in relation to a post-pandemic public and social-distancing space.
Throughout the months, their zoom meetings became their space of intimacy, a zone where they could genuinely share thoughts on the concerns related to their jobs and their reflections on performance. The podcast collects thoughts on the performing body post-pandemic, the public and physical proximity, the notion of time and its perception, the end of the 'event economy' that characterises the art world, the art community, the agency of the performance and its potentiality to become a testing ground for choreographing future communities.
Caption: Maria Hassabi, STAGING: Solo (2017), performed by Mickey Mahar in IMMATERIAL, Vol. 2 (2018)
Photo: PJ Rountree
Credit: Courtesy of the artist and Material Art Fair, Mexico City