Exposition

Fair Games (last edited: 2022)

Thomas Robert Moore
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The authors of Defragmentation: Curating Contemporary Music (Darmstäder Beiträge zur Neuen Musik, 2018) all by (un)spoken agreement appeared to take for granted that nothing in new music curation can be taken for granted. In other words, all aspects of any given event were fair game. They suggested that not only could the choice in pieces, soloists, conductors, and ensembles be (re)tooled, but even site-specific aspects, roles of the musicians and audience, and even value regimes could be instrumentalized to fit the artistic need of the curator. Dorthee Richter, by way of introducing the bundle, proposed that curation should be a ‘practice that is deeply involved in the politics of display, politics of site, politics of transfer and translation, and regimes of visibility’. If we understand politics as, ‘the total complex of relations between people living in society’ (Merriam-Webster), then Richter suggests that every thinkable way people relate can, and perhaps should, be considered. Curators should reflect on how relationships in our world are displayed, the interplay involved on site (e.g. the history of specific concert venues), the participation (or lack thereof) of an audience, the participant’s ability to understand, enjoy, and be entertained (or not), and even the audience’s and presenter’s perceived position in society and how that interplays in concert. We, a performer-researcher, a culture-sociologist, and a musicologist, will rearticulate this premise, applying Boris Groys’ philosophy of care to examine curatorial practices. We will question the curator’s central role and probe any shifts in power between festival directors, receptive venues, and performing ensembles. And finally, drawing on Pascal Gielen’s previous research into fine arts curation and Jennifer Walshe’s piece splendor_solis.wav (2022), we will delve into the influence ‘flying’ curators have on artistic, social, and financial stability of individual musicians and ensembles.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsnew music, curation, Care ethics
date29/08/2022
last modified01/10/2022
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightThomas R. Moore, Pascal Gielen, Rebecca Diependaele
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageAmerican English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1724226/1724227


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