表演策展人學院
Curating (for) Art Ecosystems in Flux I
Date/Time: Sunday, 25 August 2024, 16:00-17:30
Venue: 11F Studio 1, Taipei Performing Arts Center
Moderator: River Lin
Speaker: Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Jeff Khan, Faith Tan (*listed in alphabetical order of the last name.)
Language: In English with simultaneous interpretation in Mandarin
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What do curators do for today’s art world while acknowledging the past and the emerging voice and bodies that have woven where we stand and work with as cultural practitioners? In the Curatoké: Performance Curators Academy, in collaboration with National Culture and Arts Foundation, Daniel Blanga Gubbay (Artistic Co-director, Kunstenfestivaldesarts), Jeff Khan (Creative Director, Asia TOPA), Nayse López (Artistic Director, Panorama Festival), Low Kee Hong (Creative Director, Factory International), Rucera Seethal (Artistic Director, National Arts Festival South Africa), and Faith Tan (Director, Programming, Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay, Singapore) (listed in alphabetical order of the last name) have been invited as mentors to work with 8 young curators from Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia and Estonia together look at issues and the unknown that shape the art ecosystems of curatorial culture. In this public talk, they will be featuring knowledge and experiences of their curatorial practices for and with the art ecosystems in flux
Daniel Blanga Gubbay, Italy
Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing art curator and writer. Since 2018 he serves as artistic co-director of the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as educator and independent curator in performances and public programs, among which: The Telepathic School (Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg 2021), Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut 2021, together with Zeynep Öz), Four Rooms (online, 2020), Sonic Dawn (Homo Novus, Riga 2019), Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo 2018), The School of Exceptions (Santarcangelo, 2016).
He graduated with Giorgio Agamben at Università Iuav di Venezia and holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Palermo and Valencia. He was head of the department of Arts and Choreography at the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts between 2015-2019, where he still teaches. Recent writings appeared in South as a State of Mind Athens (Talking About the Weather), e-flux (Where Do Exhibitions Go After their Death?), Mada Masr مدى مصر Cairo (Dance Under Cover of a Fictional Rhythm), Performance Journals New York (The Movement as Living Non-Body). Further recent presentations include: Politics of Co-Imagination (Tangier), Knowing the Unknown (Museum of Impossible Forms, Helsinki) and Prophecies Without Content (American University of Beirut).
Photo (c) Bea Borgers
Jeff Khan, Australia
Jeff Khan is a writer, curator and arts leader based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia). Currently the Creative Director of Asia TOPA: Asia-Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts, Jeff works at the intersection of performance, dance, visual art and sound. Previously, Jeff was Artistic Director & CEO at Performance Space, Sydney (2011-2022) where he curated and oversaw the annual Liveworks Festival of Experimental Art, as well as a year-round program of artist development, residencies, and international exchange. Jeff’s curatorial work is focused on the Asia Pacific engaged with exigent issues in the region, from queer and feminist conversations to artists’ responses to environmental, political, and intercultural conversations. Jeff has previously held positions and Guest Curatorships at the Next Wave Festival, Gertrude Contemporary, the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He has participated on juries and assessment panels for the Taishin Art Award (Taiwan); Create NSW; the Australia Council for the Arts; Arts Northern Rivers, and many more.
Photo (c) Liz Ham
Faith Tan, Singapore
Faith Tan has over 20 years of programming, producing, management and international networking experience in the performing arts. She was Head of Programme Development at Dance House Helsinki, Finland in 2020, where she co-initiated a commission programme for new dance productions by Finnish dancemakers. She is currently the Director of Programming in Singapore’s national arts centre, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay. Under her direction, Esplanade’s da:ns festival and series in Singapore co-produced productions by world renowned artists, commissioned and championed new work from significant Asian dancemakers, supported the practice of dramaturgs for dance, presented a large public participatory programme, as well as an artist lab and seminar workshops. Tan’s work at Esplanade included programming music for the Mosaic Music Festival from 2005 – 2012. She is a founding member of the Asian Network for Dance (AND+) and serves on panels for grants from the National Arts Council in Singapore, as well as on panels and juries for international dance platforms. Tan holds a Master’s degree in Arts and Cultural Management.
Photo courtesy of the mentor
River Lin, Taiwan
Working with Live Art, dance, and queer culture, Paris-based Taiwanese artist River Lin is Curator of the Taipei Arts Festival, ADAM, Camping Asia and Curatoké: Performance Curator Academy at the Taipei Performing Arts Center. He is also Co-Curator of the Indonesian Dance Festival, Guest-Curator of the 2025 Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, and Guest Co-Editor for the OnCurating's Special Issue. His artistic work has been presented internationally by Centre Pompidou, Centre National de la Danse, Live Art Prize, M+ Museum, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum among others.
Photo Credit by Taipei Performing Arts Center
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