Bowerbird is pleased to present an online talk with Nancy Perloff and Ron Kuivila, hosted by exhibition co-curators You Nakai and Dustin Hurt.

Nancy Perloff, curator at the Getty Research Institute, oversees the David Tudor Papers, one of the most significant archives of experimental music in the 20th century. Ron Kuivila, Professor of Music at Wesleyan University and performer of Tudor’s work, is custodian of the David Tudor instrument collection and has spent decades studying, reconstructing, and performing Tudor’s electronic systems. Together, they offer unique perspectives on the challenges and insights of preserving, interpreting, and presenting Tudor’s legacy—from navigating complex archival materials to understanding the physical instruments and circuits that defined his work. This conversation explores what it means to curate an artist whose practice resisted fixed documentation, and how institutions can make Tudor’s elusive but transformative work accessible to new generations of artists and scholars.

This online program starts at 6:00pm Eastern US time as a Zoom Webinar. Registration is required, but free.

This event is part of A VIEW FROM INSIDE: DAVID TUDOR AT 100, an exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery from January 15 to March 21, 2026.

Major support for A View from Inside has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
with additional support from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia.