Critical Correspondence
University Project
The University Project is an initiative of Critical Correspondence that aims to shed light on the shifting relationship between academia and working artists. More and more Universities are interested in bringing working artists on to their faculty, and many Universities now offer low-residency MFA programs to assist working artists in obtaining higher degrees. What are […]
Transport: Farewell Merce Cunningham Dance Studio by Anita Cheng
Anita Cheng reflects on the final month of classes at the Cunningham Dance Studio at Westbeth, home to generations of dancers and dance-makers. Writes Cheng: “Merce’s choreography capitalizes on the dancer’s innate love of specificity. It is a great romance: the right time in the right place, facing the right direction.”
Curating Valeska Gert: Ana Isabel Keilson in conversation with Wolfgang Muller and An Paenhuysen
“In 2010 I began my PhD in the History department at Columbia University, focusing on intellectual history and performance during Weimar Germany. While researching in Berlin, I met An Paenhuysen, a former visiting scholar at Columbia, who had just curated ‘Pause. Valeska Gert: Bewegte Fragmente’ at the Hamburger Banhof with Wolfgang Muller. In addition to co-curating the exhibition, Muller published Valeska Gert: Asthetik der Prasenzen (2010), which includes a reprint of Gert’s memoir, Mein Weg (1931). I was eager to talk with them about this important yet relatively obscure artist.”
