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Curating with the City

Talk with Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir in the context of Onassis New Choreographers Festival 7

Dates

Prices

Free admission

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Sunday
Time
13:30 – 16:00
Venue
Onassis Stegi – Galaxy Studio (Galaxia 2, behind the Onassis Stegi main building)

Information

Addressed to

Dancers, choreographers, curators, producers, art workers.

Reservation

Send an email to education.stegi@onassis.org with your email, cell phone number and title (professional description)

Participation Cost

Free admission

What does curate a festival with the city means? Co-Directors of Reykjavík Dance Festival, Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir, open a discussion on the relationship art can have with its locality and those dwelling in it.

Photo: Owen Fiene

In this talk, Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir, artistic directors of International Performing Arts festival Reykjavík Dance Festival, will talk about their ongoing research as curators. The pair will introduce different projects of theirs and discuss their approach to the city, those living in it, as well as perspectives on collaboration. They will discuss their focus on thinking of the festival as a community and a platform that seeks to redistribute agency to those voices in the city that otherwise would not be heard.

We will talk about curatorial perspective on curating with the city and those dwelling in it. Discussions will center upon specific projects and expand into the curatorial questions and strategies that have driven that work.

The talk is targeted at whoever is interested in reflecting upon the relationship art can have with its locality and those dwelling in it.

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Alexander and Ásgerður have been working together as curators, dramaturges, artistic producers and artists since 2009 and will continue to work together in the coming years. The pair have been Co-Directors of Reykjavík Dance Festival since 2013.

Alexander is also the program director of the MFA in Performing Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts, an artist and a dramaturg.

Ásgerður is an assistant professor at the Iceland University of the Arts and works as well as a dramaturg.

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