In Production

Music Curator Amadeus Julian Regucera hosts a roundtable discussion with Associate Time-based Visual Arts Curator Katherine Adams and Dance & Theater Curator-in-Residence Tara Willis to preview the Spring 2025 season as well as talk about curatorial approaches and styles. Projects include the Ephemeral Organ festival featuring Lesie Cuyjet and others, Ontopoiesis with Rama Gottfried & Yarn...

Music Curator Amadeus Julian Regucera hosts a roundtable discussion with Associate Time-based Visual Arts Curator Katherine Adams and Dance & Theater Curator-in-Residence Tara Willis to preview the Fall 2024 season as well as talk about curatorial approaches and styles.   Season Image: Marina Rosenfeld, μ (mu), film still, 2024. Courtesy the artist.

Released on the occasion of the film’s inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial, this episode of On Production looks back at the creation of artist Clarissa Tossin’s Mojo’q che b’ixan ri ixkanulab’ / Antes de que los Volcanes Canten / Before the Volcanoes Sing at EMPAC, which took place over the course of a three-year period. EMPAC’s Video Engineer Ryan Jenkins talks with artist Clarissa Tossin and...

In the second episode of In Production, EMPAC video engineer Ryan Jenkins talks with Bailey Scieszka and curators Isabella Achenbach, Eduardo Andres Alfonso, Angelica Arbelaez, Min Sun Jeon, and Guy Weltchek about producing their large-scale multimedia theatrical project Conspiracy Influencer at EMPAC. Bailey Scieszka’s Conspiracy Influencer is a four-part theatrical extravaganza that premiered li...

Welcome to In Production, conversations on the research and development of time-based artworks. Hosted by EMPAC’s engineering and curatorial staff, we talk to artists, technicians, curators, scholars, and makers associated with the production of new work here at the Curtis R Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Thr...

In this first episode of In Production, EMPAC curator Ashley Ferro-Murray talks with theater maker Annie Saunders, conductor and composer Christopher Rountree, and their collaborators about the making of their EMPAC commissioned work, Rest . This look behind the scenes of the project features source material from research interviews and original music by composer Emma O’Halloran. Rest interrogates...