Intro -- Curating Live Arts -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue - Bethinking One's Own Strengths: The Performative Potential of Curating -- Acknowledgments -- A Collective Introduction -- A Note on Curatorial Statements - A Third Space: Chasing the Intangible -- Part I - Historical Framings -- Chapter 1 - From Content to Context: The Emergence of the Performance Curator -- Practical Space - Curiosity and Intuition -- Chapter 2 - Exhibiting Performances: Process and Valorization in When Attitudes Become Forms-Bern 1969/Venice 2013 -- Chapter 3 - Can We Curate Dance without Making a Festival? On Dance Curatorship and Its Shifting Borders -- Chapter 4 - Curating Performance from Africa on International Stages: Thoughts on Artistic Categories and Critical Discourse -- Practical Space - Untitled -- Chapter 5 - The Curating Nation: Emergence of Performance Curation in Singapore and Its Impact on Cultural Politics -- Chapter 6 - The Curatorial Chronotope -- Practical Space - Layers -- Chapter 7 - More Weirdness, More Joy: Performance Curation and Pedagogy at Danspace Project and the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance -- Part II - Ethical Proposals -- Chapter 8 - Dancing the Museum -- Chapter 9 - Curatorial Discourse and Equity: Tensions in Contemporary Dance Presenting in the United States -- Practical Space - Holy Motor-a Mechanical Metaphor Surrounding the Live Arts Curator -- Chapter 10 - Noticing the Feedback: A Proposal to the Contemporary Dance Field, and/or This Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced -- Chapter 11 - Email to a Curator: An Introduction to The Curators' Piece -- Practical Space - Curating Liveness -- Chapter 12 - Curation as a Form of Artistic Practice: Context as a New Work through UK-based Forest Fringe -- Part III - The Artist-Curators.

Chapter 13 - The Artist-Curator, or the Philosophy of "Do-It-Yourself" -- Embodied Space - "Soft-Curation," Pollination, and Rhizomes -- Chapter 14 - Being in the Vanguard of Sensibility: Artists as Curators in Performing Arts-a Study of Collective Affect -- Chapter 15 - Familias: Artist-Activist Curation in the South Bronx, New York -- Chapter 16 - What We Talk About When We Talk About Curating the "Unexpected" -- Embodied Space - Greater Than -- Chapter 17 - Because I Love Art, I Want Art to Be Different: The Project Perverse Curating and a Few Things I've Learned from It -- Chapter 18 - Making Stage: Contemporary Dance and Performance Curation in the Caribbean -- Embodied Space - As We -- Chapter 19 - The Work of the Musician-Curator in Relation to the "Concert Scenario" -- Chapter 20 - Pseudo-, Anti-, and Total Dance: A Self-Interview on Curation -- Chapter 21 - Collective Creation and Improvised Curation: A Discussion with Body Slam -- Part IV - Exhibition as Events -- Chapter 22 - A New Kind of Critical Elsewhere -- Chapter 23 - Re-enact History? Peforming the Archive! -- Chapter 24 - Choreographing Archives, Curating Choreographers: Yvonne Rainer, Xavier Le Roy, and the Dance Retrospective -- Embodied Space - The Title as the Curator's Art Piece -- Chapter 25 - Exhibiting Dance, Performing Objects: Cultural Mediation in the Museum -- Chapter 26 - The Curator's Work: Stories and Experiences from Tino Sehgal's Events -- Part V - Artivism -- Chapter 27 - Framing a Network, Charting Dis-Courses: Performance Curation, Community Work, and the Logic/Anxieties of an Emerging Field -- Ethical Space - Curate -- Chapter 28 - Food=Need: Constraints, Reflexivity, and Community Performance -- Chapter 29 - ARC.HIVE of Contemporary Arab Performing Arts: Memory, Catastrophe, Resistance, and Oblivion.

Chapter 30 - Collective Walks/Spaces of Contestation: Site-Specificity, Community Involvement, and Mobility Employed as Curatorial Strategies in the Creation of Participatory Performances -- Chapter 31 - Sound Citizen: Curating Sound Art in the Distributed Public Sphere -- Ethical Space - Curation as a Practice of Radical Care: A Definition -- Part VI - Institutional Reinventions -- Chapter 32 - Rethinking the Role of Institutions and Curators in a New Interdisciplinary Age -- Chapter 33 - The Curator as a Culture Producer -- Ethical Space - Definition of Curation -- Chapter 34 - How to Build a Manifesto for the Future of a Festival: "Festivals as Thinking Entities," a Conversation with Judith Blackenberg, Daniel Blanga-Gubbay, Silvia Bottiroli, and Livia Andrea Piazza, initiated by Silvia Bottiroli and Berno Odo Polzer -- Chapter 35 - The Curatorial Gesture as a Decolonial Gesture -- Ethical Space - Proposing Intervals-Curating as Choreography -- Chapter 36 - Are You Not Entertained? Curating Performance within the Institution -- Chapter 37 - Bodies in Museums: Institutional Practices and Politics -- Ethical Space: Curating History, Curating Resistance -- Chapter 38 - What Can Contemporary Art Perform? And Then Transgress? -- Epilogue - Situation Critical: What Comes Next for the Field of Performance Curation? -- Ethical Space - The Parable of the Curator -- Index.

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