Curating Crisis

This issue examines how performance curators are responding to todays crises both within the world of theater and performance and in the broader spheres of politics, economics, and history. Interviews with four leading performance curatorsBoris Charmatz, Sodja Lotker, Florian Malzacher, and Miranda Wrightexplore the evolution of their work in response to changes in funding, audience demographics, and creative practices. A special section, coedited by Sigrid Gareis, features essays from a convening at the 2015 SpielART festival that consider the role of the curator in transnational exchange and in response to issues of postcolonialism. Contributors. Tilmann Broszat, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Collins, Thomas F. DeFrantz, Sigrid Gareis, Andr Lepecki, Sodja Lotker, Florian Malzacher, Jay Pather, Suely Rolnik, Tom Sellar, Miranda Wright