THE BEGINNING OF THE MOVEMENT
Kathleen Smith (CA)
Workshop
24th of November
Senior Canadian curator and writer Kathleen Smith shares highlights and insights from decades of watching and making screendance. Drawing from her experience programming for festivals, special events, cinematheques, archives, and broadcast, she offers personal reflections on the art and practice of curation. The session will be punctuated by the screening of several perspective-shifting short films, illustrating how a single work can profoundly expand both curator and audience sensibilities — and how a collection of works can shape and evolve genres. To deepen an understanding of meaning-making in public projection contexts, the workshop will conclude with individual exercises designed to engage participants in the curatorial process.
TARGET AUDIENCE
TFilmmakers, curators, artists, general audience members, students
FORMAT
In person
LANGUAGE
English
Toronto-based writer, filmmaker and curator interested in performance, culture and technology. In 1992, she co-founded the Moving Pictures Festival of Dance on Film and Video, directing and programming for 15 years with an international touring program. She has curated screen dance for festivals in Brighton, Paris, Montreal, Calgary and Düsseldorf, and serves on the Canadian dance archive Collection Regards Hybrides. She curates for dance: made in Canada, teaches at York University, and creates award-winning films presented worldwide.
