Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

Stefan Sagmeister's The Happy Show, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2012. Image courtesy of the Institute of Contemporary Art.

Questions of Practice: Institute of Contemporary Art Director Amy Sadao on How Audience Feedback Impacts Curatorial Choices

Institute of Contemporary Art Director Amy Sadao on the impact of audience feedback on curatorial and programmatic decision-making.

Artists from Ballet Folclorico do Brasil performing as part of The Music Center's \Music Center on Tour\" program in Los Angeles. This program was presented as a case study by Kamella Tate during \"What's at Stake Here: Evaluating the Impact of Your Programs\" on May 27

Questions of Practice: Evaluation Consultants Randi Korn and Kamella Tate on Impact

Evaluation consultants Randi Korn and Kamella Tate on impact.

Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag, GAMMAgreen/x-sea-scape, 2006, installation view, \Invisible Geographies: New Sound Art from Germany

Questions of Practice: Philosopher Christoph Cox on Approaching Noise Music

“You have to get inside the music, rather than hearing it as something that has a progression,” - Christoph Cox

Merce Cunningham, Ocean, 2008. Rainbow Quarry, Waite Park, Minnesota. Photo by Cameron Wittig.

Questions of Practice: Visiting Scholar Kristy Edmunds on the Role of Audiences in Preserving Performance

During a recent conversation at the Center, our visiting scholar Kristy Edmunds and Philip Bither, Senior Curator at the Walker Art Center, discussed the role audiences play in conserving performance works—what Edmunds describes as "art forms which we can't collect, and preserve, or own."

Aaron Cromie’s A Paper Garden, commissioned and produced for the American Philosophical Society Museum’s Greenhouse Projects. Photo by Brent Wahl. Pictured: Genevieve Perrier [in the dress] and Mary Tuomanen [in the hat].

Questions of Practice: Theater Artist Aaron Cromie on Artistic Responsibility

We asked Philadelphia multidisciplinary theater artist Aaron Cromie to comment on the artistic responsibilities he considers as a director. "I think it's the director's job to create an environment and a world," Cromie responded. "The director is an arbiter of great ideas."

The Magic Flute, LA Opera. Photo by Robert Millard.

Questions of Practice: Opera Philadelphia's David Devan on Excellence and Accessibility

David Devan, director of Opera Philadelphia, on whether or not excellence and accessibility are mutually exclusive.

Sarah Sanford, Katherine Powell, and Mary Tuomanen, in Three Sisters at the Arden Theatre Company. Photo by Mark Garvin.

Questions of Practice: Mary Tuomanen on "Timefulness"

We asked Philadelphia theater artist Mary Tuomanen to comment on the notion and nature of time in performance.

Tania Isaac, 2011 Pew Fellow, dancing in 2007.

Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Tania Isaac on Audience Expectations

"There is a hunger for a conversation about process," says dancer and choreographer Tania Isaac, when asked about changes in audience expectations.

Pastor Harry Moore, Sr. of Mount Olive Baptist Church approaches the lectern remodeled with 3711 Melon Street’s front door, as his choir performs at the funeral service for the row home. Interior detail of Temple Contemporary’s publication for Funeral for a Home.

"The Home Going Celebration": An Excerpt from Funeral for a Home

In this excerpt from the publication for Temple Contemporary's *Funeral for a Home*, Sue Bell Yank offers a first-person account of the "home going" memorial for the house at 3711 Melon St.

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, site 3 (Drama Wall), Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.

Learning to See psychylustro

Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro—a five-mile-long "painting" sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia—challenges a number of assumptions about the role of both painting and public art. Here, urbanist Randy Mason offers his perspective.