<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Hello — This is a reminder that Shannon Jackson is speaking today as part of the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series, which will take place in conjunction with York's Performing the Accidental Archive Graduate Symposium (see <a href="http://yutps.ca/">http://yutps.ca/</a>). Info about the talk is below. The lecture is free and open to the public. Hope to see many of you there! Cheers, Laura</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div><div><div class=""><div class="">—</div><div class=""><b class="">Shannon Jackson</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Curating People: Drama’s Archive as a Time-based Art</b></div><div class=""><b class="">Saturday, April 18, 3:00pm-4:30pm</b></div><div class=""><b class="">The Gladstone Hotel, Melody Bar, 1214 Queen Street West</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This lecture considers contemporary experiments in performance curating in museums, galleries, and biennials. While much of this activity might fall under the capacious category of performance art, many projects seek to curate the choreographic and theatrical work of the performing arts. How do we understand these experiments across art forms? What new competencies do they require of artists, curators, audience members, and institutions? Shannon Jackson focuses on selected examples to consider issues of skill, concept, history, and literacy as artists and audience members move across art contexts.</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">BIO:</div><div class="">Shannon Jackson is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Chair in the Arts and Humanities and Director of the Arts Research Center at UC Berkeley. Her most recent book is <i>Social Works: Performing Art, Supporting Publics </i>(2011). Previous work has explored the relation between performance and Progressive Era social reform (<i>Lines of Activity</i>, 2000) and between performance and the disciplines of higher education (<i>Professing Performance</i>, 2004). Shannon is currently working on a book about the relation between performance and new media in the work of the The Builders Association (forthcoming from M.I.T. Press). She serves on a number of boards, has published in assorted journals, collections, and catalogues, and continues to work on a number of civic art projects in the Bay Area. </div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br></div></div></body></html>