Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

The Many Arms of Group Sound

Performance Senior Specialist Jeff Arnal looks to Philadelphia experimental trio Many Arms as he explores how musical groups form collective sounds.

From Dan Blacksberg and David Gutkin's White Box Residencies project.

White Box Residencies: Dan Blacksberg & David Gutkin

Blacksberg, a trombonist, composer, and 2012 Pew Fellow and Gutkin, a historical musicologist, sought to "sonify" the everyday environment of an office space and conducted various musical experiments.

From Data Garden's interactive fall 2012 exhibition, The Switched-On Garden 002. Photo by Inna Spivakova, courtesy of Data Garden.

Talking with Data Garden: Co-Composing with Plants

Data Garden co-founders Alex Tyson and Joe Patitucci answer our questions about co-composing music with plants.

Installation shot of Alien She at the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University: Posters (c. 1991–present) from Riot Grrrl related shows, conventions and meetings internationally, solicited from institutional and personal archives through open calls, word-of-mouth, and invitations. Photo courtesy of the Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University.

Talking Exhibitions with Marnie Burke de Guzman

Marketing specialist Marnie Burke de Guzman sat down with us in early 2013 to discuss exhibitions as platforms for audience engagement.

Questions of Practice: Curator Helen Molesworth on Authorship

Helen Molesworth, now chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, explains what authorship and co-authorship mean to her.

Alex Torra in Pig Iron Theatre Company's Zero Cost House by Toshiki Okada. Photo by Jacques-Jean Tiziou.

Culture Shock on the Stage: Pig Iron's Alex Torra on Performing Zero Cost House in Japan

Pig Iron Theatre Company member Alex Torra talks about the experience of performing for Japanese audiences after premiering *Zero Cost House* in the United States.

Ain Gordon in Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell. Photo by Sara Krulwich, courtesy of the New York Times.

Breaking Down Invisible Walls: The Visiting Artist As Dramaturge

In the second segment of our three-part conversation with Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon, he discusses his work throughout his residency period, including his role in the Center's *Push Me, Pull You* project.

Dancers rehearsing J-Sette with LaKendrick Davis and Donte Beacham. Image courtesy of idiosynCrazy productions.

J-Sette and the Collaborative Process Behind Jumatatu Poe's Private Places

A conversation with Pew Fellow Jumatatu Poe, Donte Beacham, and LaKendrick Davis on the underground dance style of J-Sette and how Poe drew on its legacy for *Private Places*, a new Center-funded work.

Electronic Music 2012

Electronic Music 2012, presented by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage on December 13, 2012, investigated the evolving American electronic musical experience and how it relates now to cultural expectations.

Push Me, Pull You: Questions of Co-authorship

This project investigated various issues surrounding (co-)authorship in cultural production, asking questions around definitions of authorship, collaboration, audience participation, the influence of marketplace, and other concepts.