Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

Questions of Practice: Thomas DeFrantz, Choreographer and Dance Scholar

We ask DeFrantz how changes in technology are impacting the ways in which artists produce narrative.

Questions of Practice: HowlRound's P. Carl on Excellence and Accessibility

We asked P. Carl, director and editor of HowlRound: Are excellence and accessibility mutually exclusive concepts?

Left to right: Song Dong, Song ErRui, and Yin Xiuzhen. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

Questions of Practice: Artist Song ErRui on Collaboration

Song ErRui, the daughter of artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen, talks about her contribution to her parents' exhibition, "The Way of Chopsticks," her life as a young artist, and artistic collaboration.

The Many Arms of Group Sound

Performance Senior Specialist Jeff Arnal looks to Philadelphia experimental trio Many Arms as he explores how musical groups form collective sounds.

From Dan Blacksberg and David Gutkin's White Box Residencies project.

White Box Residencies: Dan Blacksberg & David Gutkin

Blacksberg, a trombonist, composer, and 2012 Pew Fellow and Gutkin, a historical musicologist, sought to "sonify" the everyday environment of an office space and conducted various musical experiments.

From Data Garden's interactive fall 2012 exhibition, The Switched-On Garden 002. Photo by Inna Spivakova, courtesy of Data Garden.

Talking with Data Garden: Co-Composing with Plants

Data Garden co-founders Alex Tyson and Joe Patitucci answer our questions about co-composing music with plants.

Installation shot of Alien She at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University: Posters (c. 1991–present) from Riot Grrrl related shows, conventions and meetings internationally, solicited from institutional and personal archives through open calls, word-of-mouth, and invitations. Photo courtesy of the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

Talking Exhibitions with Marnie Burke de Guzman

Marketing specialist Marnie Burke de Guzman sat down with us in early 2013 to discuss exhibitions as platforms for audience engagement.

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.

Alex Torra in Pig Iron Theatre Company's Zero Cost House by Toshiki Okada. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.

Culture Shock on the Stage: Pig Iron's Alex Torra on Performing Zero Cost House in Japan

Pig Iron Theatre Company member Alex Torra talks about the experience of performing for Japanese audiences after premiering *Zero Cost House* in the United States.

Ain Gordon in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. Photo by Sara Krulwich, courtesy of the New York Times.

Breaking Down Invisible Walls: The Visiting Artist As Dramaturge

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.