The Curative Act

The aim of this research is threefold: 1) to investigate how to build an artistic work relation between curator and choreographer, 2) to explore the potential of the curator of choreography as a performing artist, 3) to research methods and forms for curating singular choreographies in a performed group exhibition, a chorus.

The research will be carried out by PhD Marie Fahlin who has invited five choreographers to the project.

The first two years will focus on a series of one-to-one, two weeks long, experimental work sessions with scores, mapping, asemic writing and choreographing. The third year will focus on the curation of a group exhibition and the writing of a book. My research questions are: Which role, part, can a curator play, take, in a choreographic process?

What methods and means can be developed from the artistic work between curator and choreographer?

What strategies, methods, are to be invented in order to curate the singular, live performed, works into a coherent whole that still leaves space for artistic integrity?

Curating time-based art, choreography, requires deep knowledge and insight into how powers such as dynamics, energy, matter and movement intra-act with space, audience and aesthetics.

By critically reflect on the potential role and function of the curator of/in choreography this research will provide new insights into these complex relations and will influence both curation of choreography and the expanded field of choreography.