A World Appears comes to Pioneer Works as a live rock/pop performance framed for close listening in a space better known for cross-disciplinary culture in New York. Featured performer Michael Pollan is part of a lineup that places a public voice inside a concert setting, shifting the usual boundary between talk and song. If this is the project’s first New York run, it reads as a local marker of how NYC venues keep retooling what “a show” can be. One clear takeaway is that the format treats attention itself as the subject.