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Cosmic Terrarium / Motion Painting Project  Live Arts
Sean Stoops and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
A live outdoor mural painting unfolds in Northern Liberties over two weeks of the Festival. In Cosmic Terrarium, four artists transform a vacant weedinfested lot across from the Festival Box Office into a visual spectacle, using paint and found objects. The mural installation evolves daily as the artists visually riff off one another, responding to the work from the day before, to transform the site.
Dance  Live Arts
Lucinda Childs with music by Philip Glass and film by Sol LeWitt
Three masters of minimalism, choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Philip Glass, and conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, collaborated to construct this seminal work of dance—one of the purest examples of interdisciplinary art-making ever created. An exploration of musical movement, rhythm, and harmony, Dance is a bold statement on the very nature of movement.
Decasia  Live Arts
Bill Morrison
Bill Morrison's Decasia was created from his discovery of a trove of old, decaying film stock. Scored by Michael Gordon of Bang on a Can, the movie is an expressionist collage of past images—of dreams, romance, drama, exotic locales and mythic cinema—that have become subverted by the striking visual consequences of the decomposing film: melting, rusted, warped, disintegrating.
Festival Plus  Live Arts
Dance by Lucinda Childs
Through a film series, lecture, moderated discussion, and a master class, Festival Plus programming for Dance offers audiences a deeper insight into the artist and her work.
Jolie Laide Project Space
Jolie Laide Gallery
The Project Space at Jolie Laide, a new contemporary art gallery in Center City, features rotating installations with video & performance art from social myth-buster Jacolby Satterwhite, anthropomorphic installations by Fabienne Lasserre, and a landscape of repurposed automobiles by Jordan Griska. Live performance by Jacolby Satterwhite (pictured) on Saturday, Sept.4th @ 8–10pm.
Let's Face It! Self Portraits & Life Stories
Linda Dubin Garfield
Dive into piles of art supplies while meeting interesting people on the same mission as you: to create your self-portrait and your personal history. It can be a gift to yourself, or you can have them included in the ongoing collection. Interactive mixed media workshops: September 12 & 15: 2–4 pm. Make your own self-portrait.
The Association for Creative Zoology
Hokes Archives
Was God the first collage artist? Does God have a sense of humor? Duck-billed platypuses, centaurs, and chimeras answer “Yes!” according to artist Beauvais Lyons. Lyons will present prints, taxidermy, and fossils as evidence for weird evolution in a performance of his fanciful Association for Creative Zoology.
Utopia in Four Movements
Sam Green
Utopia in Four Movements is Academy Award nominated documentarian Sam Green’s unique hybrid of film and live performance. Featuring live narration from Green and musical accompaniment by Dave Cerf, Utopia investigates humanity’s impulses toward achieving an ideal world, from the history of Esperanto to glimpses at the world’s largest mall.
Winnipeg Babysitter
Daniel Barrow
From the late 70s through the 80s, Winnipeg, Canada experienced a golden age of public access television. Anyone with a creative dream, concept, or politic was on the air. Winnipeg Babysitter, artist Daniel Barrow’s live video and performance project, traces these unique vignettes from a brief synapse in broadcasting history.