Drawing on her wealth of experience of the global art world, curator Stephanie Rosenthal will address performance art in public institutions, focusing on new performative strategies and formats, as well as the complementary role of the digital archive. Notwithstanding its longer history—including dada, situationism, and the ritualised events of the pluralistic 1970s—performance has recently reasserted its place in art. Once occasional and sequestered to non-gallery sites, performance has now entered the museum, sometimes in all-encompassing events. The presence of live art inside institutions—with their unique processes of production, presentation, and distribution—raises new challenges for the art museum.
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Stephanie Rosenthal became Chief Curator at London’s Hayward Gallery in December 2007, having worked at Munich’s Haus der Kunst for more than ten years previously. She curated the acclaimed show Paul McCarthy: LaLa Land Parody Paradise, which travelled to London’s Whitechapel Gallery in 2005. She recently curated Ana Mendieta: Traces, the artist’s first retrospective in the UK, and is about to open Dayanita Singh: Go Away Closer. She is one of three curators co-ordinating the first Columbian Biennial, which will open in 2014.
