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Jason Rhoades, Garage Renovation New York (CHERRY Makita), 1993, installation view, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. Photo: Aaron Igler/Greenhouse Media.
Detail from The Temple of Knowledge and Beauty, a Shelf Life display by Laura C. Keim at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage. Photo by Jeffrey Stockbridge.
Questions of Practice

Shelf Life

Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Peter Eleey.
Nato Thompson. Photo by Derek Schultz.
Astria Suparak.
Dan Byers. Photo courtesy of Roll Magazine.
Diana Vishneva and Abdiel Jacobsen in Errand Into the Maze. Photo by Costas.
Questions of Practice

Repetition Island

Left to right: Song Dong, Song ErRui, and Yin Xiuzhen. Image courtesy of the Philadelphia Art Alliance.
Detail from the cover of the No Idea Is Too Ridiculous catalog, published by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in 2010.
Questions of Practice

No Idea Is Too Ridiculous

Sam Miller, 2015. Photo courtesy of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. 
From left to right: Jiri Zizka, Tom Sellar, Václav Havel, and Paul Wilson at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, May 26, 2010. Photo by Karl Seifert.
Playgrounds for Useful Knowledge Neighborhood Convening, June 29, 2015. 632 Jackson Street. Photo by Steve Weinik. Courtesy of the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
The Wooster Group's version of Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre. Pictured: Scott Shepherd and Kate Valk. Photo by Nancy Campbell.
Works by Thomas Nozkowski on view at Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, in 2009. Photo courtesy of Stephen Friedman Gallery.
Dancers rehearsing J-Sette with LaKendrick Davis and Donte Beacham. Image courtesy of idiosynCrazy productions.
Screencap from Braiding / Unbraiding / Rebraiding with Headlong Dance Theater and Tere O'Connor.
Installation view of Staples, Stakes, Twine, Turf by Lawrence Weiner, included in outdoor sculpture exhibition, Carl Andre, Hay; Robert Barry, Mesh; Lawrence Weiner, String, April 30 through May 31, 1968. The Seth Siegelaub Papers. Gift of Seth Siegelaub and the Stichting Egress Foundation, Amsterdam, I.A.20. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York. Photographer: Seth Siegelaub. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York, NY, U.S.A. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, NY.<br /> 
\Measuring Intrinsic Impact\" with WolfBrown and Theatre Bay Area
Left: Kathleen McLean. Image courtesy of Discursive Space. Right: Mark Beasley.
Nate Page, *couchbleachers*, 2011. Installation at *Camp Cleveland*, Machine Project's exhibition and residency at SPACES, February 11 to April 1, 2011.