Questions of Practice: Curator Helen Molesworth on Authorship
Helen Molesworth, now chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, explains what authorship and co-authorship mean to her.
How are audience expectations and public participation changing?
Helen Molesworth, now chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, explains what authorship and co-authorship mean to her.
In the second segment of our three-part conversation with Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon, he discusses his work throughout his residency period, including his role in the Center's *Push Me, Pull You* project.
A conversation with Pew Fellow Jumatatu Poe, Donte Beacham, and LaKendrick Davis on the underground dance style of J-Sette and how Poe drew on its legacy for *Private Places*, a new Center-funded work.
This project investigated various issues surrounding (co-)authorship in cultural production, asking questions around definitions of authorship, collaboration, audience participation, the influence of marketplace, and other concepts.
Pig Iron member Dito van Reigersberg ruminates on past and present artistic influences for the production *Zero Cost House*.
For the conclusion of Act I of our Push Me, Pull You series, we posed some remaining questions about (co-)authorship to Gordon, the 2011–13 Visiting Artist at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
Hong, director of academic affairs and program development at the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University, looks at the opportunities presented by co-authorship through the lens of entrepreneurship.
Wooley's rigorous study and extensive performance of a wide variety of musical scores offers us an expert musical perspective, as well as unique insight, into our questions of (co-)authorship.
Noyes, director of the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University, shines light on many issues of authorship within folk practices, including notions of conservatism vs. freedom of expression.
Van Loon and Wilder chronicle their individual remembered experiences during the making of their collaborative dance piece Eulogy for John Kerry.