Title: Some questions to Stephanie Rosenthal artistic director 20th Biennale of Sydney
Abstract: It is no secret that you have shown an interest in performative practices, live art and working with dance and movement artists. You curated the exhibition 'Move: Choreographing You' for the Hayward Gallery in London and included 'Le Mouvement: Performing the City', the 12th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition Biel/Bienne in your research trips last year. How does this inform your curatorial approach to the 20th Biennale of Sydney? For some time now, I have been exploring choreography across different art forms. I'm especially excited that this iteration of the Biennale of Sydney will offer new ways for audiences to encounter the city, and to do this through performance. My hope is that this focus will provide Sydney residents and visitors alike with a new view on the urban spaces that surround them, whether familiar or unknown, and cast new light on how space, too, is choreographed. For this exhibition, I am particularly interested in foregrounding durational performance, and in showing through doing how performance as a medium is just as important as sculpture or painting. Long-form works come with their own challenges, for artists, audiences, and for venues. Yet these challenges - ranging from the conceptual to the logistical - are also what, for me, makes performance so interesting. It prompts us all to think differently about art, about viewer experience, and about exhibition making in a broader sense.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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