TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation
Arising out of “Envisioning the Practice: International symposium on performing arts curation” at the University of Québec (April 10-14, 2014), In the wake of this event, co-organizer Dena Davida created the anthology Curating Live Arts: Critical Perspectives, Essays and Conversations on Theory and Practice (2018), a collection of 60 texts, supported by Berghahn Books i NYC, and which was the precursor of the new journal.
Gaining momentum from this anthology, Davida then initiated TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation with a first issue in spring 2022, a seminal publication for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in live arts. Along with the support of five co-editors — Tawny Andersen, Barbara Scales, Victoria Carrasco, Barbara Scales, and Yves Sheriff — and with the continued support of Berghahn Journals, this journal was grounded in an international movement that began in 2010 with the Croatian theatre journal Frakcija #55 “Curating Performing Arts,” to create a community of discourse in this burgeoning field of study and its first academic programmes.
TURBA proposes a hybrid model of academic texts, conversations and interviews, essays in all writing styles, book and event reviews and even visual essays. Each issue is guided by a thematic framework, and includes thirteen to fifteen articles with a wide and heterogeneous array of world views, generational perspectives and live art forms.
TURBA offers a platform for the exploration of ideas, concepts, constraints, expectations, and contingencies which guide and drive curatorial practices in these artistic fields. This collection of essays and conversations, by and for live arts curators, fosters a community of critical discourse about curation across traditions, genres, communities, generations, cultures, disciplines, artistic expressions and aesthetics.
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