Curated by Alexander Roberts, Katja Kirsi and Harri Kuorelahti.
Since 2015, Reykjavík Dance Festival had been working with a group of young curators under the title Teenagers in Reykjavík. The group curated festivals in swimming pools, theatres, galleries and bedrooms; art conferences in a greenhouse and a music hall; as well as workshops, radio shows and one-off performances in art and non-art spaces around the city.
For Reykjavík Dance Festival this ongoing experiment was part of a broader curatorial agenda questioning who in the city gets to speak through the festival platform and on whose terms.
This day-long symposium shared aspects of Teenagers in Reykjavík’s approach and sought conversation partners in Helsinki to reflect on the redistribution of agency within the arts.
Programme
- Workshop led by Marta Ákadóttir and Alexander Roberts
- Public talk on curating by Marta Ákadóttir and Alexander Roberts
- Panel discussion on redistribution of agency with Janina Rajakangas and Riina Hannuksela
