Performing Arts Curation as a Means of Advocating for Change in Cultural Policy

TURBA ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94

This article explores the potentials of performing arts curation to challenge current European cultural policies. It opens with a brief comparison of the genealogy of the curator in the visual and performing arts. Suzana Milevska’s concept of “curatorial agency” and contemporary understandings of the “curator as an intermediary” serve to highlight the discrepancies between the socio-political conditions of production and circulation in the two fields. The second part of the article draws on interviews with five performing arts curators from independent organizations active within European project networks to further examine the implications of curating as a mediating cultural-political practice. Finally, in a context where cultural policies increasingly support market-oriented cultural actors, it calls for a stronger accountability of the performing arts curator in the negotiation of values between the artistic community, audiences, and policymakers.

M. Fabius Quintilianus was a prominent orator, declaimer, and teacher of eloquence in the first century ce. After his retirement he wrote the Institutio oratoria, a unique treatise in Antiquity because it is a handbook of rhetoric and an educational treatise in one. Quintilian’s fame and influence are not only based on the Institutio, but also on the two collections of Declamations which were attributed to him in late Antiquity. The Oxford Handbook of Quintilian aims to present Quintilian’s Institutio as a key treatise in the history of Graeco-Roman rhetoric and its influence on the theory and practice of rhetoric and education, from late Antiquity until the present day. It contains chapters on Quintilian’s educational programme, his concepts and classifications of rhetoric, his discussion of the five canons of rhetoric, his style, his views on literary criticism, declamation, and the relationship between rhetoric and law, and the importance of the visual and performing arts in his work. His huge legacy is presented in successive chapters devoted to Quintilian in late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, Northern Europe during the Renaissance, Europe from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century, and the United States of America. There are also chapters devoted to the biographical tradition, the history of printed editions, and modern assessments of Quintilian. The twenty-one authors of the chapters represent a wide range of expertise and scholarly traditions and thus offer a unique mixture of current approaches to Quintilian from a multidisciplinary perspective.


Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history.  This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. In this article, we present one in-depth case study where we explain how we transformed the Honors Humanities course from Face To Face to i2Flex. We will describe and present examples of how we redesigned the course format and presentation, learning activities and assessment. We present data on student feedback and our findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this course.


Author(s):  
Laura Lukes

Theme:The Science of Learning: Using Research to Improve Teaching7th Annual ConferenceSeptember 18, 2015 Conference Director:Laura Lukes (Center for Teaching & Faculty Excellence) Advisory & Selection Committee: Boicu, MihaiBoyette, JoannaClare, KatieCressman, RobEby, KimEdwards, CodyGeorge, ChristianGliozzi, MarioGoldman, JonathanHannan, HeatherKoch, LisaKravitz, DavidLawrence, SusanLukes, LauraMallett, KarynOffutt, JeffOlesova, LarisaOwen, JuliePettigrew, KathyReid, ShelleyRogers, PaulSaleem, RajaSaunders, CathyScott Constantine, LynneUsher, BethanyWarren, JohnWest, PatriciaWillis, OdetteWolf, PaigeYigit, Erdal Logistical Coordination:Ashleen Gayda (Center for Teaching & Faculty Excellence)Tamara Day (Events Management) Logistical Support:Office of Events ManagementEvents ProductionMason CateringAndrew Cote (OSCAR)Samira Lloyd (OSCAR)Denise Nazaire (OSCAR) Conference Proceedings:John WarrenJeri WieringaLaura LukesAshleen GaydaEmily LambackChyna Staten (Retroactive)                               Sponsors: BlackboardGeorge Mason University LibrariesGeorge Mason Publishing GroupProQuestUPCEABarnes & Noble College: George Mason Bookstore4-VAThe New York Times in Education Supporters:College of Education and Human Development; College of Health and Human Services; College of Humanities and Social Sciences; College of Science; College of Visual and Performing Arts; Graduate Student Life; Higher Education Program; Information Technology Services; Office of Distance Education; Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities, and Research; School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution; School of Business; School of Policy, Government, and International A airs; University Life; Volgenau School of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center.Volunteers:Dorothy Amoah-Darko, Sam Ashworth, Jesse Capobianco, Cameron Carter, Andrew Cartwright, Zella Christensen, Lynne Scott Constantine, Svetlana Filiatreau, Andrew Finn, Darcy Gagnon, Liesel Hamilton, Caitlin Holmes, Tabine Kamaleddine, Mills Kelly, Joey Kuhn, Ying-Ying Kuo, Shawn Lee, Jaime Lester, Jessica Matthews, Je O utt, Larisa Olesova, Julie Owen, Nathalia Peixoto, Richena Purnell-Sayle, Esperanza Roman-Mendoza, Robert Sachs, Catherine Saunders, Linda Sheridan, Darlene Smucny, Debra Sprague, Carol Stiller, Bethany Usher, John Warren, Gerald Weatherspoon, Margaret Weiss, and the students of TOUR 440.  of Engineering; Writing Across the Curriculum; and The Writing Center. 


2012 ◽  
Vol 37 (8) ◽  
pp. 989-1003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Paltridge ◽  
Sue Starfield ◽  
Louise Ravelli ◽  
Sarah Nicholson

TERRITORIO ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 145-151
Author(s):  
Stephen W. Sawyer

In Paris, the rearrangement of the balance between city, periphery and national territory creates tensions also shown in the area of cultural policies. Concentrating on the recent conflict between the Comédie Française and other local cultural actors in Bobigny, this paper shows how national initiatives for cultural planning in the metropolitan region are rooted in a project of democratisation and decentralisation on a national scale, which could be defined as ‘cultural Keynesianism'. The paper maintains that similar processes and tensions are more comprehensible if placed within local cultural ‘scenes' that include places designated for culture as well as other amenities and cultural practices. In this way the event in Bobigny is explained by considering the cultural policies and experiments in participatory democracy within this territorial context.


Author(s):  
Deniz Özalpman ◽  
Sibel Kaba

The chapter deals with the topical issue of cultural policies through digitalization in cinema in Turkey, discussing the appropriate frameworks that need to be put in force. In a rapidly developing society like Turkey, the problems of digitalization in cinema vis-à-vis neoliberal regulation are being debated. Three crucial areas for a digital cultural policy in cinema are identified, namely expanding public service mindset on new services and national digital platforms, creating a communications policy framework of the different parties involved as government, parliament, regulatory authorities, the public service media, and the designated third parties as civil society and market representatives, and stimulating debate to follow an anti-monopolistic progression in (digitalized) cinema.


Author(s):  
Kathleen Jasonides ◽  
Janet Karvouniaris ◽  
Amalia Zavacopoulou

Innovative since its inception, the ACS Honors Humanities program has a long history of more than 40 years as an interdisciplinary team-taught course that examines essential questions through literature, visual and performing arts, philosophy and history. This innovative approach has continued to motivate successive teaching teams to modify and enhance a program that challenges students academically, utilizing the best possible resources and taking advantage of new technology. The program consists of two year-long, completely integrated i2Flex ACS Athens Honors diploma courses and three i2Flex 20-week enrichment courses accessible to students anywhere. This chapter presents two case studies which explain the transformation of the Honors Humanities course from Face to Face to i2Flex. The authors describe and present examples of how they redesigned the courses. They present data on student feedback and findings regarding the benefits and challenges of adopting the i2Flex methodology for this program. This chapter is intended as a reference for teachers, teachers in training and professionals who train teachers.


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