Choreography as Curation as Hosting: Relational complexities and modes of production in an expanded field of practice

这个实践作为研究（PaR）博士将调查编舞作为策展主持实践的可能性和风险。它批判性地回应了英国编舞家最近的一波项目，这些项目委托并融合了其他艺术家的作品（例如Siobhan Davies的展览“material / rearrangement / to / be”，2017）。我使用“主持”的概念来突出这些编排策展作品独特的关系复杂性和生产模式。通过与国际知名的舞厅Sadler’s Wells Theatre （SWT）合作，我将直接探索这些新兴实践如何规避和改变制度权力关系和策展过程。这个PaR过程将发展一个广泛的工作室实践，直接实验编舞-策展主持的材料和过程。它将通过“集体研究”（Harney & Moten）和“不可通约性伦理”（Tuck & Yang），开发个人创作的艺术作品，并邀请合作者主持实践。该项目在SWT、罗汉普顿大学和其他机构背景下进行，将解决在英国舞蹈的不同经济中举办挑战和创新生产模式的潜力，以及它们各自的系统性排斥和殖民暴力的遗产（Bhambra）。该博士学位将在新兴的“扩展编舞”领域（MACBA, 2012）中发展编舞-策展主持的跨学科研究框架，在该领域中，编舞具有与舞蹈同时进行分析和制作的一般能力。它将介绍这一领域——以及精心编排的潜力，以振兴——机构批判（布伦，威尔逊）关于艺术家-策展人-机构关系的关键辩论。该项目将借鉴欧陆哲学（Derrida）和酷儿理论（Halbestram），将“好客”、“主持”和“野性”的概念置于语境中；关于“剥夺”和“逃亡”的批判理论（Harney & Moten）和酷儿写作（Mitchell）；女权主义者（弗里曼）和社会学研究（布迪厄），在实验艺术的独特经济中解决同伴组织的权力关系。

This practice-as-research (PaR) PhD will investigate the possibilities and risks of choreography as a curatorial-hosting practice. It critically responds to a recent wave of projects by UK choreographers that commission and incorporate works authored by other artists (e.g. Siobhan Davies' exhibition 'material / rearranged / to / be', 2017). I use the concept of 'hosting' to foreground the relational complexities and modes of production unique to these choreographic-curatorial works. By collaborating with the internationally acclaimed dance house Sadler's Wells Theatre (SWT), I will directly explore how these emergent practices might circumvent and transform institutional power relations and curatorial processes. This PaR process will develop an extensive studio practice that directly experiments with the materials and processes of choreographic-curatorial hosting. It will develop solo-authored artworks, and host practice by invited collaborators, through 'collective study' (Harney & Moten) and an 'ethics of incommensurability' (Tuck & Yang). Taking place in SWT, University of Roehampton and extra-institutional contexts, this project will address the potentials of hosting to challenge and innovate production models across the diverse economies of UK dance, and their respective legacies of systemic exclusion and colonial violence (Bhambra).This PhD will develop this interdisciplinary research framework of choreographic-curatorial hosting within the emerging field of 'expanded choreography' (MACBA, 2012), where choreography takes on a generic capacity for analysis and production alongside and beyond dance. It will introduce to this field - and elaborate choreography's potential to revitalize - key debates from Institutional Critique (Buren, Wilson) on artist-curator-institution relations. The project will draw from continental philosophy (Derrida) and queer theory (Halbestram) to contextualise notions of 'hospitality', 'hosting' and the 'feral'; critical theory (Harney & Moten) and queer writing (Mitchell) on 'dispossession' and 'fugitivity'; and feminist (Freeman) and sociological research (Bourdieu) to address the power relations of peer-organising, within the unique economies of experimental art.