Arthur Sabatini

Sabatini is an associate professor of performance studies and a founding member of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance Department at Arizona State University. He holds a PhD from the Department of Performance Studies, New York University. He has published extensively on new music, performance, literature, and culture. His current research examines how contemporary artists, arts groups and arts institutions research, investigate and produce interdisciplinary artwork.

For decades, Sabatini has worked on and wrote about arts in Philadelphia, where he also resides. He taught at Drexel University and the University of the Arts and worked with Relâche and The Yellow Springs Institute. He has written about and collaborated extensively with artists such as Robert Ashley, Marek Choloniewski, Fred Ho, and Richard Lerman. At Slought, where he was a 2009-2010 curatorial fellow, Sabatini co-curated John Cage's How to Get Started, an interactive installation.