Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Photo courtesy of Philadelphia Orchestra.

Philadelphia Orchestra's Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the Joy Inherent in Live Music

Yannick Nézet-Séguin explains the source of live music’s inherent joyfulness and makes the case for why music should be “experienced together as a community event.”

Taylor Mac, A 24-DECADE HISTORY OF POPULAR MUSIC, “Decade 1 (1776-1786).” Photo by Teddy Wolff.

Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Taylor Mac on Duration and Ritual in Performance

Taylor Mac talks about how the unpredictability of this mode of theater can subvert the familiar and “kick people out of their 40-hour work week.

Ernesto Pujol, Speaking in Silence, Hawaii, 2011. Photo courtesy of the artist.

Questions of Practice: Ernesto Pujol on Reciprocal Relationships with Communities

Social choreographer Ernesto Pujol on creating group performances based on reciprocal relationships with communities.

Cai Guo-Qiang: Fireflies, 2017. Photo by Jeff Fusco, courtesy of Association for Public Art.

Questions of Practice: Artist Cai Guo-Qiang on Audience Participation in Public Art

Contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang describes the role of audience participation in his large-scale public art installation for Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

Questions of Practice: Choreographer and Performer Nora Chipaumire on Connecting with Her Audience

Supported by a Center Advancement grant, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented Chipaumire’s portrait of myself as my father in the fall of 2016.

Night render of The Ronald O. Perelman Center for Performing Arts at the World Trade Center © LUXIGON.

Questions of Practice: Performing Arts Producer Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Jenny Gersten on Art as an “Agent of Hope”

Philadelphia Assembled opening reception, 2017. Photo by Joseph Hu, courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Questions of Practice: Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Visual Artist Jeanne van Heeswijk on Collective Authorship

Primary school in Gando, Burkina Faso, completed 2001. Designed by Francis Kéré, Burkinabe, active Berlin. Photograph by Erik-Jan Ouwerkerk.

Francis Kéré on Architecture and Community Collaboration

Francis Kéré on why every architecture project is “a product of collaboration.”

Questions of Practice: Phoenix Art Museum's Amada Cruz on Engaging Bilingual Communities in Museums

Amada Cruz on how her Hispanic heritage informs her approach to audience engagement in bilingual communities.

An overhead view of the PHS Pop Up Garden at the Viaduct Rail Park. Photo by Rob Cardillo.

On Urban Parks and Civic Life: Insights from Leaders at PA Horticultural Society, Trust for Public Land, High Line, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation

We invited leaders in the field to discuss the significance of urban parks in contemporary culture and the audience engagement opportunities these spaces can offer.