Performing/Curating in Contemporary Arts: a Q&A session with Alessandra Troncone
The Institute of the Arts Barcelona (IAB) is pleased to welcome Alessandra Troncone as a guest at the IAB webinar series on “Digital (Performance and Emergency), organised and moderated by Armando Rotondi, Head of the MA Acting Programme. The Q&A session will be focused on the relation between contemporary arts and live performance in museum spaces, as well as the interaction between the performer and the curator.
About the guest: Alessandra Troncone is an art historian and curator. She is currently the Artistic Co-Director of Underneath the Arches, a programme for contemporary art that takes place at the archaeological site holding the remains of “Acquedotto Augusteo del Serino” in Naples, and a Professor of Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. She is also a correspondent for “Flash Art” and the author of several articles and essays in art magazines, books and catalogues. She earned her Ph.D. in History of Art at Sapienza University in Rome in 2012, researching the history of exhibitions in the 1960s and 1970s. On this research topic, she authored the book “The Dematerialization of Art in Italy 1967-1973”, published by Postmedia Books in 2014. Since 2013, she has been a Researcher in the Research Department of the Madre Museum in Naples. In 2015/16, she participated in the Curatorial Programme at de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, where she co-curated the project “Rien ne va plus? Faites vos jeux!” and its public programme, including the public event “This is Cosmos” at the Stedelijk Museum. In 2016, she was curator-in-residence as part of the Curatorial Program for Research – Eastern Europe. In 2019, she co-curated with an international team of curators the 12th Kaunas Biennial titled “After Leaving | Before arriving”. She is a member of IKT – International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art.
