Participation

How are audience expectations and public participation changing?

Dito van Reigersberg in Zero Cost House. Photo courtesy of Pig Iron Theatre Company.

Rabbit Suits & Revolutions: Dito van Reigersberg on Pig Iron's Zero Cost House

Pig Iron member Dito van Reigersberg ruminates on past and present artistic influences for the production *Zero Cost House*.

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

Push Me, Pull You: Ain Gordon

For the conclusion of Act I of our Push Me, Pull You series, we posed some remaining questions about (co-)authorship to Gordon, the 2011–13 Visiting Artist at The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.

Installation shot from Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism at the James A. Michener Art Museum. Photo by Sean Wells.

Hong, director of academic affairs and program development at the Getty Leadership Institute at Claremont Graduate University, looks at the opportunities presented by co-authorship through the lens of entrepreneurship.

Push Me, Pull You: Nate Wooley

Wooley's rigorous study and extensive performance of a wide variety of musical scores offers us an expert musical perspective, as well as unique insight, into our questions of (co-)authorship.

Push Me, Pull You: Dorothy Noyes

Noyes, director of the Center for Folklore Studies at Ohio State University, shines light on many issues of authorship within folk practices, including notions of conservatism vs. freedom of expression.

Arwen Wilder and Kristin Van Loon of HIJACK. Photo by Gene Pittman.

Push Me, Pull You: Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder of HIJACK

Van Loon and Wilder chronicle their individual remembered experiences during the making of their collaborative dance piece Eulogy for John Kerry.

Jerry Yoshitomi. Video still courtesy of Americans for the Arts.

Push Me, Pull You: Jerry Yoshitomi

Yoshitomi, chief knowledge officer of MeaningMatters, LLC, responds to a few questions around "Pro-Am" and how cultural organizations engage with their communities and potential audiences.

Krithika Rajagopalan. Photo by Amitava Sarkar.

Push Me, Pull You: Krithika Rajagopalan

Rajagopalan, associate artistic director and principal dancer of Chicago's Natya Dance Theatre, discusses her perspective on co-authorship—one that stands in relation to a time-honored form.

Push Me, Pull You: Cassie Chinn

Chinn, deputy executive director of the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, reflects on what it means to co-author someone else's story.

Push Me, Pull You: Roxane Gay

A writer known for her thoughtful and revealing pieces on everything from social privilege to *Fifty Shades of Grey*, Roxane Gay brings her knowledge of the literary world to our questions on authorship.