Moon Viewing Platform

Moon Viewing Platform is an interdisciplinary public installation that will transform an inhospitable and disused stretch of open-air land into a large-scale performance/gathering space featuring regular acts of caring, a stage, and building-sized nighttime video projections featuring an episodic series of short films. The garden/installation references the karesansui (Japanese dry landscape garden), as it becomes a set for a series of short videos and musical performances, inviting audiences to enter another world through the senses and the imagination and provides the opportunity to engage in intimate commemorative gatherings that celebrate compassion, creativity, and community as essential components of human life.

Moon Viewing film series, featuring:
New Moon…Harold E. Smith
Waxing Crescent…Sarah McEneaney
First Quarter…Cristina Martinez
Waxing Gibbous…Itzela & Elio Wiley
Full Moon…Anja Suib-Hironaka
Waning Gibbous…Cat & Pigeon
Third Quarter…Thomas Patteson
Waning Crescent…Connie Yu

Acknowledgements
Aaron Igler / Greenhouse Media; The Academy of Natural Sciences: Michael Kaczmarczik;
All Seasons Landscaping : Ed Kauffeld, Steve Ganz; American Composers Forum: Gene Coleman, Stanford Thompson; Anja Suib-Hironaka; Apiary Studio; Ben Miller; Community College of Philadelphia: Al Tomlin, Derrick Sawyer, Dr. Donald Generals, Ed Orner, Erica Harrison, Jacob Eapen, Jerome Wilkerson, Tyreice DuPass; Connie Yu; Dan Punshon-Smith; DBS Audio System; Friends of the Rail Park: Kevin Dow, Shawn Sheu; Genevieve Delaney; Japan Foundation, New York; Jeff Brown; Jen Brown; Jim Christensen; Maddie Hewitt; Marina McDougall Vella ; Mural Arts: Jane Golden, Judy Hellman, Todd Bressi; Rodin Market Partners; SEPTA; Yoko.

Location Note: Temporary project no longer on view at this location.