Questions of Practice: Artist Michael Rakowitz on the Live Experience of Radio
Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.
What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?
What if an art collection were treated like a musical or choreographic score—existing both as a historical document and as the material for an interpretive performance that could be played at any moment?
Contemplating the Museum as Score
In September 2016, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score.”
Artist Ann Hamilton on the Relationship between Production & Consumption
Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.
Questions of Practice: Choreographer Boris Charmatz on “Re-Enchanting” Public Space Through Dance
Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Major Jackson Reads Urban Renewal
Major Jackson reads two sections from Urban Renewal, the opening suite of poems in his book Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Reads 10 Haikus for Max Roach
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez (1993) visited the Center for a conversation with her former student and Pew Fellow Major Jackson (1995), as well as a poetry reading of 10 Haikus for Max Roach.
Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Art and Advocacy
Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Electronic Musician King Britt
In conjunction with the Center’s celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 2017, we spoke to electronic musician and DJ King Britt (2007) whose work explores the musical possibilities that arise at the intersection of club, experimental, and electronic music.
Fellows Friday: Q&A with Visual Artist Sharon Hayes
We spoke to Sharon Hayes (2016) who employs various mediums—including video, performance, installation, and photography. Hayes’ work is concerned with interrogating the present political moment, often through works staged “in the street,” a practice that she says arose from her “interest in public speech and the conditions of public address.”