Abigail DeVille's Flair for the Dramatic: ART21 New York Close Up

How do you get your audience to touch the art? Artist Abigail DeVille constructs a set out of recycled materials for a premiere performance of Adrienne Kennedy's play 'She Talks to Beethoven' (1898) at the JACK arts center in ClintonHIll, Brooklyn. For DeVille, the discarded is the ultimate artist supply: 'Material already has so much information trapped inside of it. It has whatever it's chemically made up of, its physical and chemical properties, whoever owned it, loved it,and threw it away . . . What can you improve on that?