Talks, Publications and workshops

Curating with the City. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Onassis Stegi, Athens, Greece, February 2nd 2020. Talk and workshop.

A dialogue. Alexander Roberts and Satu Herrala. Choreography: autonomies. Edited by Marta Keil. English and Polish. October 2019.

Curating with Teenagers in Reykjavík. Alexander Roberts, Marta Ákadóttir and Erla Sverrisdóttir. Tanzfabrik Berlin, Berlin, Germany, September 1st 2019. Talk.

Curating with Unlikely Collaborators. Alexander Roberts and Marta Ákadóttir. Zodiak Centre for New Dance, Helinki, Finland, December 4th 2019. Talk and workshop.

Festivals as communities. Alexander Roberts. The Work Room, Glasgow, Scotland, May 21st 2019. Talk.

Artist Talk. Alexander Roberts and Ásrún Magnúsdóttir. Black Box Theatre, Oslo, Norway, 22nd February 2019. Talk.

Teenagers in Reykjavík go to Hangö. Viðsjá, National Radio of Iceland. Alexander Roberts, Marta Ákadóttir and Erla Sverrisdóttir. A radio show. June 2019.

Learning with the City. Alexander Roberts. Norteas - Seminar 2019. Malmö Theatre Academy, Malmö, Sweden, February 8 - 9 2019. Talk.

A dialogue. Alexander Roberts and Satu Herrala. Choreography Anthology. English and Norwegian. October 2018.

What can we talk about? A book edited and contributed to by Alexander Roberts that outlibes the conceptual and pedagogical territory of the Master’s in Performing Arts at Iceland University of the Arts. Published by the Iceland Academy of the Arts. August 2018.

Learning with the City. Chaos and Method Symposium. Alexander Roberts. Czech Republic Academy of Performing Arts (DAMU), Prague, Czech Republic. May 29th 2018. Talk.

Festival as communities. Alexander Roberts. Return of the Fantastic Institution. BUDA Kortrijk, Kortrijk, Belgium, 22nd, 23rd, 24th February 2018. Talk.

Learning with the City. Alexander Roberts. Tanzfabrik Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 17th February 2018. Talk.

Learning with the City. Alexander Roberts. Danscentrum, Stockholm, Sweden, 14th February 2018. Talk.

The Thing - An Automatic Workshop in Everyday Disruption. A Workshop for the reflexively Impotent. Alexander Roberts. English. Commissioned for The Thing workshop. May 31st 2017.

Curating Second Hand Knowledge. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Hugarflug, Iceland University of the Arts, March 2nd 2017. Talk.

Curating in the Performing Arts: Towards Accidents, Microbes and Starlight. Alexander Roberts. Ganznovi Festival (New Dance Festival). Zagreb, Croatia. September 21 - 24 2017. Talk and a workshop.

Question-led artist-centred learning. Teaching to Transgress. Alexander Roberts. Czech Republic Academy of the Performing Arts (DAMU), Prague, Czech Republic, March 1st 2017. Talk.

Animals, cuteness and perpetual crisis. Animal Radio. Mengi. Alexander Roberts. January 11th 2017. Talk.

Turning, turning, and returning. Alexander Roberts. English. Sarma: Laboratory for discursive practices and expanded publication. July 2015.

Performing in the end times, Samtal at Iceland University of the Arts, Alexander Roberts, public talk, January 2015. Talk.

Into the City. Onto the Stage. Performing the City. Alexander Roberts. Festival TransAmerique, Montreal, Canada, May 2014. Talk.

Escaping the ethical: towards a political aesthetics in community theatre, Samtal at the Iceland University of the Arts, Alexander Roberts. January 2014. Talk.

On para-siting and collaboration – a live art research and development agency with no money. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Anti Festival, Finland, September 2013. Talk.

Paper Spaces. Alexander Roberts. English. Swedish Dance History Journal. September 2013.

Saving the Conference: With 32 people, 2 computers, 4 audio recorders, some photography cameras, and the hours of the day. Alexander Roberts and Ásgerður G. Gunnarsdóttir. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Special Issue: On Technology & Memory,Volume 17, Issue 3. June 12th 2012.

The Foreigner as a Practice of (Mis)Recognition. Alexander Roberts. Cultural Policy – a tool for diversity in the Nordic region?. 2012.

Theatre Responds to a Nation-state in Economic Recession: Theatre as a Potential platform of Response to Iceland’s Economic Recession and Socio-political Consequences, MA Thesis for MAIPR. 2011.

A Report from the In-between. Community, Art, Power. Alexander Roberts. Essays from the International Community Arts Festival. 2011.

Various articles and interviews written and edited by me for Total Theatre Magazine. 2009 - 2011.