Marginal and Contemporary
Artist Peter Saul reflects on his artistic career, his formative years living in Europe, and his (dis)connection from the Pop art movement.
When Are We Contemporary?
On the occasion of Barbara Kasten: Stages organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, we invited dance pioneer Anna Halprin and revered artists Barkley L. Hendricks and Peter Saul to reflect on their contemporaneity and answer the questions, "Who gets to be a contemporary artist? When? And why?"
"Whose Passion Are We Hearing?:" On Mendelssohn's Revival of the St. Matthew Passion
Dr. R. Larry Todd comments on the significance that the multiple interpretations of Bach's St. Matthew Passion engender for different generations.
"Pictures and Props:" An Excerpt from Barbara Kasten: Stages
Barbara Kasten: Stages curator Alex Klein explains the significance of staging and props in Kasten's work, in this catalogue excerpt.
Susan Bernofsky on Artists as Translators
Susan Bernofsky discusses the practice of artistic translation.
From "An Art of Refusal: Lucinda Childs' Dances in Silence, 1973–78"
A Steady Pulse: Restaging Lucinda Childs, 1963–78 is a dynamic reexamination of the early dances of one of America's most influential contemporary choreographers. In this excerpt from the forthcoming multimedia online publication, dance critic and historian Suzanne Carbonneau reflects on beauty as refusal in Childs' work.
Approaching psychylustro
Painter Dushko Petrovich offers his perspective on Katharina Grosse's epic psychylustro—a five-mile-long "painting" sprayed intermittently along a stretch of train tracks in northeast Philadelphia.
Again, In Another Time and Space
Patricia Lent of Merce Cunningham Trust, an experienced restager, along with theater-maker Richard Schechner, video/installation artist Sharon Hayes, and UC Berkeley professor and moderator Shannon Jackson, here explores the difficulties of recreating works of performance, and how the terms used to describe such acts—restaging, reconstructing, reenacting—vary across disciplines.
Questions of Practice: Pew Fellow Sueyeun Juliette Lee on Audiences and Points of Access
Poet and 2013 Pew Fellow Sueyeun Juliette Lee discusses the limitations of cross-cultural translation as a "border to try to leap over."
An Introduction to Restaging & Reconstruction
As interest in contemporary performance art grows, reconstruction and restaging have become critical methods in understanding the almost-lost moments of seminal early performances.