Questions of Practice: Bisi Silva on considering “the Local” and “the Global” in Curatorial Practice
Curator Bisi Silva on why she considers “the local” to be an “expanded field of engagement and practice.”
What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
Curator Bisi Silva on why she considers “the local” to be an “expanded field of engagement and practice.”
Michael Rakowitz describes the “beautiful blindness” that radio can create for listeners.
What if an art collection were treated like a musical or choreographic score—existing both as a historical document and as the material for an interpretive performance that could be played at any moment?
In September 2016, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented the eighth annual Anne d’Harnoncourt Symposium, “Museum as Score.”
Ann Hamilton on “consuming” versus “having” an experience.
Boris Charmatz on why dance is “the right medium to re-enchant the public sphere.”
Major Jackson reads two sections from Urban Renewal, the opening suite of poems in his book Leaving Saturn (2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts, award-winning poet, playwright, professor, and Pew Fellow Sonia Sanchez (1993) visited the Center for a conversation with her former student and Pew Fellow Major Jackson (1995), as well as a poetry reading of 10 Haikus for Max Roach.
Nora Chipaumire on how advocacy and the principles of law figure into her artistic practice.
In conjunction with the Center’s celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Pew Fellowships in the Arts in 2017, we spoke to electronic musician and DJ King Britt (2007) whose work explores the musical possibilities that arise at the intersection of club, experimental, and electronic music.