Poet & Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson [Full Interview]
Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Sonia Sanchez Discusses Her Creative Life & Legacy with Major Jackson
Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa Executive Director and Chief Curator Koyo Kouoh theorizes that these social shifts inform new methods of artmaking and presentation, allowing and even necessitating that artists “draw from different registers,” and explains how a transdisciplinary practice can emerge from such an approach.
Liberian vocalist, composer, and dancer Zaye Tete (2018) spoke to us about her artistic development in Liberia, music’s transformative power, and her fondness for Paul Simon.
Bisi Silva on the Contemporary Curatorial Practice in Africa
Theater artist Alex Torra (2018) spoke to us about his concentration on physical theater and why language sometimes feels “limiting,” as well as his in-progress work rooted in his Cuban American familial history.
Choreographer Leah Stein (2018) spoke to us about the origins of her site-specific choreography, her present-day process, and the “inexhaustible” qualities of Philadelphia.
Composer and guitarist Nels Cline explains the distinction between when virtuosity is an “aesthetic obstacle” to music and when it “changes the way you think about sound.”
Curator Lumi Tan on Cross-Disciplinary Curation at The Kitchen
Tracie Morris on Preserving a “Feeling of Liveness” in a Museum Setting
Darielle Mason and Dan Spock discuss issues of museum accessibility, experiential design, and the influence of digital culture on visitor engagement.