Dance First Think Later – The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts

Description

Dance First Think Later – The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts follows on from the exhibition-festival Dance First Think Later – An Encounter between Dance and Visual Arts, presented in Geneva in summer 2020, documenting it with a wealth of iconography and enriching it with a critical, theoretical and historical perspective on the works and the project. Commissioned texts are devoted to the 22 artists, written by authors active in museums, festivals, art schools, independent critics and artists.
The biennial event Dance First Think Later explores the converging fields between dance, performance, visual arts and moving images. Arta Sperto, which is organising and producing the exhibition-festival and publishing the book, is developing a cross-disciplinary approach that combines the operating mechanisms of the visual and performing arts, and the respective characteristics of museums/art centres and theatres/festivals. This approach is motivated by the need to support artists whose cross-disciplinary practices come up against the way in which culture is still largely organised by field, whether in terms of cultural policies, institutions, funding or the media. Starting with the works themselves, the book offers food for thought on cross-disciplinary approaches to the contemporary arts.

Edition : Arta Sperto
Distribution : Les presses du réel
Price : 30 CHF

Écriture

Introduction by Olivier Kaeser
Texts by Yvane Chapuis and Florian Gaité
Texts on the artists: Halil Altindere by Hou Hanru / Alexandra Bachzetsis & Julia Born by Hendrick Folkerts / Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz by Kathy Noble / Alex Cecchetti by Lucia Pietroiusti / Clément Cogitore by Marianne Derrien / Dara Friedman by Stephanie Seidel / Gerard & Kelly by Elisabeth Lebovici / Marie-Caroline Hominal by Françoise Ninghetto / Lenio Kaklea by Lou Forster / La Ribot by Maria Muracciole / Pierre Leguillon by Christophe Wavelet / Xavier Leroy by Laurence Rassel / Klara Lidén by Theresa Patzschke / Melanie Manchot by Claudia Kappenberg / Olivier Mosset & Jacob Kassay by Chloé Thomas / Samuel Pajand by François Gremaud / Christodoulos Panayiotou by Lucia Pietroiusti / Alexandra Pirici by
Florian Malzacher / Julien Prévieux by Raphaël Brunel / Marinella Senatore by Francesco Stocchi / Gregory Stauffer by Karine Tissot / Barbara Wagner & Benjamin de Burca by Andre Lepecki

Edition

Publication director Olivier Kaeser / Associated coordination Catherine Pavlovic / Graphic design Schaffter Sahli / Proofreading Florence Perret, Claire Martinet / Traduction AJS Craker / Photoengraving and printing Musumeci S.p.A., Quart, Italia / Edition 900 copies

Book Launches

05.03.25 6pm, Foyer of the ADC Pavillon
Place Beatriz-Consuelo, Geneva
Discussion with Ruth Childs, dancer and choreographer, Olivier Kaeser, curator of DFTL and editor of the book, François Ninghetto, art historian and contributor to the book, moderated by Anne-Laure Sahy, head of the AVDC (Association vaudoise de danse contemporaine).
Pavillon ADC

13.03.25 7pm, After 8 Books bookshop
7 rue Jarry, 10th, Paris
Discussion with Hou Hanru, art critic, curator, Christophe Wavelet, critic, curator, Maxime Thomas, dancer, choreographer, Olivier Kaeser, curator of DFTL and editor of the book.
After 8 Books

14.03.25 5.30pm, Ménagerie de Verre
12 rue Lechevin, 11th, Paris
Discussion with Lou Forster, art historian, curator, playwright, Marie Muracciole, art critic, curator, Maxime Thomas, dancer, choreographer, Xavier Le Roy (to be confirmed), dancer, choreographer, Olivier Kaeser, curator of DFTL and editor of the book.
With the support of the Ménagerie de Verre.
Ménagerie de Verre