The 'West' versus 'the Rest'? Festival Curators as Gatekeepers for Sociocultural Diversity
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Managing Culture: Reflecting on exchange in global times. ed. / Victoria Durrer; Raphaela Henze. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. p. 127-153 (Sociology of the Arts).
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TY - CHAP
T1 - The 'West' versus 'the Rest'? Festival Curators as Gatekeepers for Sociocultural Diversity
AU - Gaupp, Lisa
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Gaupp analyses how sociocultural diversity is being standardized through conventions at renowned international performing arts festivals where a variety of performances from contemporary theatre, dance, music or visual arts are presented. Sociocultural diversity in these festivals refers preferentially to artists and audiences with different sociocultural backgrounds and different art forms, yet in ways that further marginalize their work as well as their status as artists. The chapter focuses on the role of the ‘festival curator’, understood both as a cultural broker, cultural intermediary as well as a gatekeeper who is embedded in a complex field of ‘the curatorial’. As postcolonial critique, the chapter shows how curatorial practice is deeply influenced by power relations and conventions, as well as network structures and processes. By doing so the chapter proposes that a transcultural perspective on diversity may provide a way to decolonize international arts management in general and curatorial practices more specifically.
AB - Gaupp analyses how sociocultural diversity is being standardized through conventions at renowned international performing arts festivals where a variety of performances from contemporary theatre, dance, music or visual arts are presented. Sociocultural diversity in these festivals refers preferentially to artists and audiences with different sociocultural backgrounds and different art forms, yet in ways that further marginalize their work as well as their status as artists. The chapter focuses on the role of the ‘festival curator’, understood both as a cultural broker, cultural intermediary as well as a gatekeeper who is embedded in a complex field of ‘the curatorial’. As postcolonial critique, the chapter shows how curatorial practice is deeply influenced by power relations and conventions, as well as network structures and processes. By doing so the chapter proposes that a transcultural perspective on diversity may provide a way to decolonize international arts management in general and curatorial practices more specifically.
KW - Gender and Diversity
KW - Cultural Distribution/Cultural Organization
KW - Cultural studies
KW - Music education
KW - Sociology
KW - Culture and Space
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-24646-4_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-24646-4_6
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-030-24645-7
T3 - Sociology of the Arts
SP - 127
EP - 153
BT - Managing Culture
A2 - Durrer, Victoria
A2 - Henze, Raphaela
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
CY - Cham
ER -