MIT HTC Forum: PRODUCING GEOPOLITICS
presents
Nato Thompson
Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production

Tuesday, November 17
6:30 pm
Room 3-133
Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the public art agency Creative Time, New York, where he has organized such projects as Paul Chan’s monumental Waiting for Godot in the streets of New Orleans (2007), Democracy in America: The National Campaign (2008) in New York City’s Park Avenue Armory, the roving cross-country discussion platform It is What it Is: Conversations about Iraq by artist Jeremy Deller, and PLOT09, which brought a number of art encampments to Governor’s Island, NY. Prior to this, Thompson was Curator at MASS MoCA, where his massive exhibition The Interventionists looked to contemporary art engagements across the social sphere — including conferences, nomadic housing, free taxi rides, media detournement, and shoplifting.

Thompson will discuss his book Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production. Borrowing from his experience as an activist and curator, Thompson discusses the difficulties and potentialities of producing meaning under a neoliberal information economy.
The Fall 2009 HTC Forum, Producing Geo-Politics, considers creative production within geo-political systems. HTC Forum events are free and open to the public. Organized by the History, Theory, and Criticism Program of Architecture and Art at MIT with the generous support of the Lipstadt-Stieber Fund. For information about this and other forum events, please contact: (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).