Nato Thompson

Author of Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011

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About the Author

Nato Thompson is an author and curator. He currently works as artistic director of Philadelphia Contemporary. Before that he was artistic director at Creative Time, where he worked since 2007. His other books include Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century, and the speculative show more fantasy novel, Marshsong. show less

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Works by Nato Thompson

The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life (2004) 78 copies

Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism (2009) 57 copies

Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017) 50 copies

Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Twenty-first Century (2015) 39 copies

Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom (2005) 18 copies

Marshsong (2019) 18 copies

Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History (2006) 9 copies

Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum (2010) — Author — 9 copies

Mark Tribe: The Port Huron Project (2010) 5 copies

Iktidari Gormek: 21. Yuzyilda Sanat ve Aktivizm (2018) 2 copies

The Creative Time Summit: Revolutions in Public Practice 1 copy

Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017) 1 copy

9th Street Stock Exchange 1 copy

Converge 45 : Art on the 45th parallel 1 copy

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Legal name: Thompson, Nato Christian
Birthdate: 1972-03-09
Gender: male

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Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday… by Nato Thompson

Note: I accessed a digital review copy of this book through Edelweiss.

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fernandie | Sep 15, 2022 |

Mike Nelson: A Psychic Vacuum, Creative Time Books,… by Mike Nelson, Peter Eleey

In 2007, artist Mike Nelson transformed the disused interior of the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side, taking audiences on a journey through his installation “A Psychic Vacuum,” a series of reconstructed rooms and passageways filled with enigmatic props, clues and assemblies. Over the next two years, the artist meticulously recreated that journey in this superbly designed and fully illustrated artist's book.

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petervanbeveren | Sep 24, 2018 |

Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 by Nato Thompson

Solid collection on the topic of socially engaged art (participatory art, relational aesthetics, social practice, etc.). The introductory essays alone are worth picking it up. They're thoughtful as well as surprisingly balanced and critical towards this approach to art-making. The remainder of the book provides a broad survey of significant works/events/projects/artists that can be loosely fit under this artistic umbrella. At times the survey portions felt a little superficial, yet it does give a rich glimpse of the range of this kind of work. Not a perfect book, but definitely worth reading if at all interested in the intersection of art and social action. Also- sexy design. I'm a sucker for a nice-looking/feeling book.… (more)

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Mducman | Apr 22, 2013 |

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