Claudia Kappenberg

Projects

grounded, A Season of Screendance (28 July - 9 August 2020). Curated by Claudia Kappenberg (University of Brighton) and Fiontán Moran (Tate Modern). Hosted by Coastal Currents, Hastings.

Claudia Kappenberg is a performance and media artist, writer and curator. In 2010 she co-founded the International Journal of Screendance and she is director of the Centre for Screendance. Originally a dancer she continues to work with movement and space and with the gestures and rhythms of the everyday. Her projects consist of minimal choreographies which examine systems and parameters in the form of live interventions or films, to interrogate that which makes us human.

Talks and events:

Invisible Landscapes, curated screening part of the Brighton Screendance Festival by South East Dance and Cinecity Brighton, 17/11/2024.

Curated conversations and a screening in response to Melting Ice/Rising Tides, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, 5, 8, 12 June 24.

Residency at Q Space, Hastings. April - May 2024, researching and development of Basement Dances.

Image (2022), part of Basement Dances, screening at (Dis)playing Memory, Teatro Ca' Foscari a Santa Marta, Venice, Oct 2023

A Space Without A use, live durational intervention, Kunsttreffpunkt Darmstadt, Germany, Aug 2023

Screendancing Histories and Acts of Memory, curated events and part of Brighton Screendance Festival, with South East Dance and Cinecity Brighton, 18/11/2022, and as part of (Dis)playing Memory, Venice Oct 2023

On The Edge (Claudia Kappenberg & Hermione Allsopp, 2022) Promenade Performance in Hastings Town Centre, 12 June 2022, 2-5pm. A commission by Home Live Art for the Knotty Festival

In the face of war, a historiographic turn in Screendance, paper given at International Symposium of Screendance, University of Wisconsin-Madison, US. April 10 - 13 2022.

grounded, A Season of Screendance. 28 July - 9 August 2020. Hosted by Coastal Currents, Hastings, curated by Claudia Kappenberg and Fiontán Moran.

Selected publications:

Kappenberg, C. (2024) The Matter of Analogue Media Technologies in Screendance, in LO: TECH: POP: CULT Screendance Remixed, Guy, P. and Alanna Thain (eds.), Routledge, 286 - 307.

Kappenberg, C. (2023) The Disturbance of one System by Another, in Rethinking Roland Barthes Though Performance, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 135-154.

Kappenberg, C. & Moran, F. (2021) Reflecting on grounded: A lens on Covid Through Screendance. The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ). 9, 2, p. 188-194.

Kappenberg, C. (2022) Dancing is the best revenge. Catalogue essay on the work of Melanie Manchot. In Dance First Think Later - Rencontre entre danse et arts visuels, les presses du réel, Geveva CH.

Interview with Claudia Kappenberg, in Mendonça, M. (2021) Make/ Manifest, A Life in Art and Craft, 91-106.

As Covid has brought screened dance and screendance into close proximity, four screendance curators look at the dynamics between them, by Emily May, Springback Magazine 21 Jan 2021.

Kappenberg, C. (2018) The Use of Uselessness. In: E. Meehan and Hetty Blades ed., Performing Practice, Sharing Dance and Choreographic Practice. London: Intellect, 251-271.

Kappenberg, C. (2017) Arrows Fly. In: C. Patracchini ed., Zeno’s Paradoxes, London: Zeno Press, 43 - 46.

Kappenberg, C. (2017) Incognito. In: M. Hayes ed., Dancing Museums. Repères, Cahier de danse. Val-de-Marne: la Briqueterie (FR), 13- 15.

Kappenberg, C. (2016) Too Much Self. In: S. Jamet, Fred Dalmasso and Véronique Dalmasso, Syncope in Visual and Performing Arts, Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit. (See Amazon)

Kappenberg, C. (2016) An Interdisciplinary Reading of Entr’Acte. In: D. Rosenberg ed., The Oxford Handbook of Screendance Studies. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 187-204.

Kappenberg, C and Sarah Whatley ed., On: All This Can Happen, The International Journal of Screendance. Vol 7 (Autumn 2016)

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