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Séminaire

DEM’ARTS Seminar Series (2nd Cycle) –seventh session

Erin Brannigan

Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales, Australia

"Resourcing Care: Choreography and the Museum"
 

Moderator : Barbara Formis PR (ACTE)
 

*(Séance en anglais)

 

Abstract


Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum was a project that brought artists, researchers and institutions into dialogue about best practice to support the choreographer and the museum, and to sustain momentum in theory and practice around dance and the visual arts. The project was awarded an Australian Research Council grant over three years (2021 to 2024) with partner organisations University New South Wales (UNSW), National Gallery of Victoria (NGV), TATE UK, Art Gallery New South Wales (AGNSW) and Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) and independent artist Shelley Lasica.

One of the project’s key outputs is a freely available, internationally relevant, online resource precariousmovements.com, focused on choreographic work in the context of the museum and addressing how we can better serve and represent the artist in this context. Drawn directly from our research into the field of practice through interviews, consultations and practical case studies, all information is designed specifically to improve conditions for artists working in this field and to assist museums and arts workers with this task. Equally, it is intended as a reference for artists working with museums to provide knowledge and to support their agency and autonomy in such situations.

 

The resource development was supported by contributions and consultations with artists and museum workers internationally, including Eva Garino at Palais du Tokyo. Precariousmovements.com is the central discussion point for this open session to reflect upon what best practice in this space can look like.

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Erin Brannigan is Professor in Theatre and Performance at the University of New South Wales, working on the unceded lands of Bidjigal clan of the Dharawal Nation, alongside the Biripai, Dharug, Gadigal, Gumbaynggirr, Ngunnawal and Wiradjuri peoples. She is of Irish and Danish political exile, convict, and settler descent. Her publications include Dancefilm: Choreography and the Moving Image (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011), Choreography, Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s -1970s (London: Routledge, 2022) and a companion monograph to the latter, The Persistence of Dance: Choreography as Concept and Material in Contemporary Art (Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 2023). She has published various chapters and articles in film, performance and dance journals and anthologies and regularly presents on dance for ABC Radio. Her research project Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum  (2020-2024) with Tate UK, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of NSW, Monash University Museum of Art, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Shelley Lasica and Zoe Theodore produced an award-winning online sector resource, precariousmovements.com, an anthology Precarious Movements (Melbourne: NGV, 2024), and co-commissioned 6 case studies by artists Shelley Lasica, Victoria Hunt, Amrita Hepi, Atlanta Eke, Riana Head-Toussiant and Rochelle Haley.

 

Access the session online