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Essay Interview Video
Projects in Process: Discoveries in the Archives with Berman Museum and Japan America Society
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Jun. 13 2024
Projects in Process: Wilma Theater and EgoPo on Creative Collaborations
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Mar. 27 2023
Building a Sense of Belonging through Community-Centered Theater
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Feb. 18 2022
Reflections on the Black Cultural Archive Project
Linda Earle
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Mar. 17 2021
Site Read: Seth Siegelaub in Conversation with Teresa Gleadowe
Seth Siegelaub, Teresa Gleadowe
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Mar. 17 2021
Site Read: Innovating Sites by Bruce Altshuler
Bruce Altshuler
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Sep. 9 2020
Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Choreographer Gregory Maqoma on Expressing Cultural Identity
Gregory Maqoma
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Oct. 4 2018
Excerpt from The Sentient Archive: Artist Sarah Crowner on Painting and Dancing
Sarah Crowner
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Mar. 1 2018
The Paradox of Dancing in a Museum
Marie Bardet
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Jul. 11 2017
What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?
Carlos Basualdo, Marie Bardet
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Jul. 11 2017
Contemplating the Museum as Score
Carlos Basualdo
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Jul. 27 2015
A Barbara Kasten-Inspired Disruption
Brent Wahl
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Jul. 13 2015
Act V: A Final Report: The Archive of Gestures by Jay Kirk
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May. 14 2015
Text Made Visible in the Works of Self-Taught Artists
Brooke Davis Anderson
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May. 11 2015
Just Say It or Think It and It Is So
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May. 11 2015
Marginal and Contemporary
Peter Saul
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May. 11 2015
When Are We Contemporary?
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Apr. 20 2015
"Whose Passion Are We Hearing?:" On Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion
R. Larry Todd
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Apr. 13 2015
"Pictures and Props:" An Excerpt from Barbara Kasten: Stages
Alex Klein
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Mar. 16 2015
Act IV: The Layover by Jay Kirk
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Feb. 26 2015
Susan Bernofsky on Artists as Translators
Susan Bernofsky
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Feb. 11 2015
In Perpetual Motion: An Excerpt from Jason Rhoades, Four Roads
Ingrid Schaffner
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Feb. 3 2015
"The Home Going Celebration": An Excerpt from Funeral for a Home
Sue Bell Yank
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Feb. 2 2015
From "An Art of Refusal: Lucinda Childs' Dances in Silence, 1973–78"
Suzanne Carbonneau
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Jan. 12 2015
Approaching psychylustro
Dushko Petrovich
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Jan. 12 2015
Learning to See psychylustro
Randy Mason
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Dec. 1 2014
An Introduction to Restaging & Reconstruction
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Oct. 29 2014
That There Might Be Queer Sound by Ashon Crawley
Ashon Crawley
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Sep. 25 2014
Act III: THE ACT III MANiFESTO by Jay Kirk
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Aug. 14 2014
Keynote Essay by George E. Lewis: What Is a Co-author?
George E. Lewis
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Jul. 10 2014
Questions of Practice with Ken Vandermark: Is Jazz Dead?
Ken Vandermark
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Jul. 3 2014
Act I: A Report on the Proceedings by Jay Kirk
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Jul. 3 2014
Act II: Misguided Machines by Jay Kirk
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Jul. 1 2014
An Introduction to Co-Authorship
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Jun. 13 2014
Taking Inspiration from the Barnes Foundation Art Collection
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Mar. 27 2014
Excavating Real Estate: Alan W. Moore on The Real Estate Show (1980)
Alan W. Moore
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Mar. 13 2014
Case Study: New Paradise Laboratories’ Fatebook
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Feb. 27 2014
David Gordon: How many ways there are (1995)
David Gordon
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Feb. 6 2014
"Scientific and Artistic Models in the New Work of Sarah Sze" by Arthur C. Danto
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Jan. 24 2014
Second Preface for The History of Madness
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Nov. 14 2013
Repetition Island
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Oct. 28 2013
Skipping and Slipping Through Time with Lucinda Childs
Megan Bridge
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Oct. 22 2013
Re-Substantiating the Dance: William Forsythe's Synchronous Objects
Linda Caruso Haviland
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Oct. 17 2013
Unsettling the Score: Experiments in Notation, Part II
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Sep. 19 2013
Unsettling the Score: Experiments in Notation, Part I
David Gutkin
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Aug. 23 2013
Every Copy an Original: William Forsythe on Restaging His Ballets
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Aug. 1 2013
Programs at the Center: White Box Residencies
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Jan. 31 2013
On the Making of JG
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Nov. 15 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Questions of Co-authorship
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Sep. 24 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Ain Gordon
Ain Gordon
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Sep. 17 2012
Push Me, Pull You: MiJin Hong
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Sep. 11 2012
American Impresario: Helene and Robert Browning
Toni Shapiro-Phim
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Aug. 13 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Nate Wooley
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Jul. 25 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Dorothy Noyes
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Jul. 13 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder of HIJACK
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Jul. 5 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Jerry Yoshitomi
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Jun. 29 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Krithika Rajagopalan
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Jun. 22 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Cassie Chinn
Cassie Chinn
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Jun. 15 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay
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Jun. 8 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Michael Rohd
Michael Rohd
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Jun. 1 2012
Push Me, Pull You: Kenneth Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith
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May. 31 2012
Jenny Sabin's Greenhouse at the American Philosophical Society
Jenny Sabin
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May. 14 2012
White Box Residencies: Anthony Campuzano
Anthony Campuzano
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Mar. 29 2012
American Impresario: George Wein
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Mar. 2 2012
The Further Adventures of the Wooster Group's Kate Valk
Kate Valk
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Dec. 8 2011
White Box Residencies: Tania Isaac
Tania Isaac
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Oct. 21 2011
American Impresario: David Harrington
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Jun. 21 2011
American Impresario: John Schaefer
John Schaefer
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Jan. 1 2002
Curating Now: Imaginative Practice/Public Responsibility
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