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Ted Passon, 2014 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Installation view of Temple Contemporary's reFORM, in collaboration with Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio. Photo by Constance Mensh. Courtesy of Temple Contemporary.
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Visiting scholar Kristy Edmunds in conversation with Limor Tomer at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on May 28, 2014.
J.C. Todd, 2014 Pew Fellow. Photo by Ryan Collerd.
Sueyeun Juliette Lee, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
Available Light at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1983. Photo by Tom Vinetz. Performers: Lucinda Childs, Nan Friedman, Meg Harper, Janet Kaufman, Priscilla Newell, Steve Bromer, Michael Ing, Erin Matthiessen, Daniel McCusker, Ande Peck, and Garry Reigenborn.
Frank Sherlock, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
Rally Under the Bridge, a 3-hour rally directed by Claire Tancons and Delaney Martin for New Orleans Airlift, New Orleans, April 5, 2014. Featured: 504 Boyz Horse Riding Club. Courtesy of New Orleans Airlift.
Jenn McCreary, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
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.
Questions of Practice

Two Perspectives on psychylustro

Katharina Grosse, psychylustro, 2014, site 6 (Warehouse). Benjamin Moore acrylic indoor paint. Photo by Steve Weinik for Philadelphia Mural Arts Program.
Questions of Practice

Approaching psychylustro

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.
Questions of Practice

Learning to See psychylustro

Emily Abendroth, 2013 Pew Fellow. Photo by Colin Lenton.
Tacita Dean, JG, 2013. Color and black and white anamorphic 35mm film with optical sound, 26 ½ minutes. ©Tacita Dean courtesy Frith Street Gallery, London/Marian Goodman Gallery, New York/Paris.
Score for Lucinda Childs' Melody Excerpt. This score represented all the possible pathways that each dancer may traverse during the course of performing Melody Excerpt, along with stage measurements in feet. Each dancer is represented by a discrete color. Courtesy of Lucinda Childs.
Example 1: 12th-century Beneventan staff. All images courtesy of the author.
Alex Torra in Pig Iron Theatre Company's Zero Cost House by Toshiki Okada. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.
San Francisco Ballet performing William Forsythe's Artifact Suite. Photo by Erik Tomasson.