Performance Curators Academy

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