What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Interdisciplinary artist Maia Chao and visual artist James Maurelle discuss how they create productive work environments for themselves, their earliest interests in artistic expression, and why they’ve made Philadelphia their home.
Exploring the exhibition’s themes through movement, Fernandes’ choreography examines not just Edmondson’s work but also the relationship between Black cultural production and the American museum.
Choreographer Brendan Fernandes and exhibition co-curator James Claiborne speak about how dance intersects with the design of the exhibition and visitor experience.
Novelist Camille Acker and filmmaker Sabaah Folayan discuss the origins of their practices, creative influences, and dream projects.
Fiction writer Asali Solomon and poet and performer Denice Frohman interview each other and discuss the role of humor, artistic influences, and what work they're most proud of.
Nance discusses how he approached the presentation of his work in a new context.
Ross Gay discusses the parallels between artistic and athletic practices.
In this installment, experimental composers Raven Chacon and Jacob Cooper discuss their musical origin stories, the role chance plays in their work, and the environments in which they make music.
Decker talks about how she drew on her own experiences with pregnancy and motherhood (as well as her background as a filmmaker) in developing the piece, and she explains the intentions behind the work’s unconventional structure and content.
Visual artist Mark Thomas Gibson and multidisciplinary artist Alex Smith discuss why they’re both drawn to comic art, their open-ended creative processes, and the ethical, political, and historical questions they consider in their work.