Critical Perspectives
ARTIST IN FOCUS MEETINGS
The Struggle Continues in the Ongoing Struggle
WITH André Lepecki
A global reference in dance theory, essayist and curator André Lepecki reflects on what he calls the non-time of struggle, this time through the dance and art of nora chipaumire, the featured artist of the 10th MITsp — while broadening the discussion to consider other dance and performance artists. What counter-logic of movement and time emerges from this combative aesthetic, simultaneously warrior-like and joyful, proposing a renewed choreopolitical force to sustain the ongoing struggle—in other words, the dance that matters?
WHEN AND WHERE
March 17, Sunday, from 16h to 18h
Goethe-Institut
Free admission
ABOUT
André Lepecki is an essayist and independent curator. He is a Full Professor at New York University and Associate Dean at the Tisch School of the Arts. He is the author of Exhausting Dance (2006), Singularities (2016), and Idiorritmia (2018) and has curated festivals and projects for HKW-Berlin, MoMA-Warsaw, MoMA PS1, Hayward Gallery, Haus der Künst-Munich, Sydney Biennial 2016, and Xavier Hufkens Gallery, among others. He was a dramaturg for choreographers Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Francisco Camacho, and Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods. In 2008, he received the Best Performance Award from the International Association of Art Critics (USA) for the direction and co-curation of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts by Allan Kaprow. Since 2003, he has collaborated with Eleonora Fabião on several of her actions.
