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Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)

  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)
  •  Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)

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Co-organized with Creative Time, Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) is an unprecedented international project that explores over 20 years of cultural works that blur the forms of art and everyday life, emphasizing participation, dialogue and community engagement.

In collaboration with 25 curators from around the world, Nato Thompson has selected 48 socially engaged projects as the foundation of this exhibition, which will expand as it travels. Further increasing the diversity of practices that are represented in the show, each hosting institution selects additional works to add to the exhibition, which tours via hard drive.  In addition to expanding the content of the exhibition, each collaborating venue organizes site-specific, socially engaged, commissioned projects or events that connect to the theme and “activate” the show. As the essence of the project is social engagement, each venue is also encouraged to provide participatory experiences that possess political or community-based content for visitors to encounter.  Examples of events already held by presenting venues include a conversation between San Francisco-area artists and high school students at a screening of Suzanne Lacy’s The Roof is On Fire; an artists’ talk with Hong Kong-based video artist/activists; a mural project with the Juvenile Justice Center of Mahoning County in Ohio addressing themes of community, social justice, and individual rights; workshops connecting veterans with civilians with Warrior Writers, a Philadelphia-based arts organization; and presentations by Sahrawi artists during the Arts and Human Rights Festival in the Sharawi refugee camps of Tindouf, Western Sahara.

“Something historically unique is happening in cultural production that requires different rules for art than those of the 20th century,” says Thompson. “This culturally savvy method of civic production has manifested in everyday urban life and growing civil unrest.  Living as Form is an opportunity to cast a wide net and ask: How do we make sense of this work, and in turn, how do make sense of the world in which we find ourselves?”

Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) is the flexible, expanding iteration of Living as Form, a site-specific project presented by Creative Time in the historic Essex Market in New York from September 24–October 16, 2011. More information about the original iteration of the exhibition can be found on Creative Time’s website here.

updates

Living As Form at the Plains Art Museum

  Participants from “The Art of Hospitality,” June 19, 2014. THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE series programming in conjunction with Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) at Plains Art Museum. Photo: Cody Jacobson. On View June 12, 2014 – September 14, 2014 Living As Form (The Nomadic Version) opened on June 12 at the Plains Art Museum in […]

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Interview with Nato Thompson and Freya Chou on Living as Form

From the September Issue of Artco Magazine, an interview with Nato Thompson and Freya Chou on the exhibition, Living as Form, originally published in Chinese. Read the Original Article here. Read the english translation here.

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Interview with Nato Thompson and Frey Chou on Living as Form

From the September Issue of Artco Magazine, an interview with Nato Thompson and Freya Chou on the exhibition, Living as Form, originally published in Chinese. Read the Original Article here. Read the english translation here.

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touring schedule

Art & Society Research Center
Tokyo, Japan
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND, United States
December 6, 2014 - January 1, 1970

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Herndon Art Gallery, Antioch College
Yellow Springs, OH, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Artport Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv, Israel
January 1, 1970 - July 3, 2014

Museo de Arte Sinaloa
Sinaloa, Mexico
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

The 4th Anyang Public Art Project
Anyang, South Korea
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

Richard E. Peeler Art Center
Greencastle, IN, United States
May 9, 2013 - June 12, 2013

CCI Fabrika
Moscow, Russia
April 2, 2013 - January 1, 1970

Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design
Philadelphia, PA, United States
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

ARTifariti
Tifariti, Western Sahara
January 1, 1970 - January 1, 1970

McDonough Museum of Art
Youngstown, OH, United States
July 9, 2012 - September 11, 2012

Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism
Bat-Yam, Israel
June 9, 2012 - April 10, 2012

Kadist Art Foundation
San Francisco, CA, United States
January 1, 1970 - September 11, 2012

Videotage
Kowloon, Hong Kong
January 3, 2012 - October 5, 2012

University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA, United States
February 2, 1985 - February 3, 1985


Booking Info

Number of artists or artist groups: approx. 50 Number of works: approx. 50 Space required: extremely flexible Available dates: January 2012 through December 2014 For additional information, as well as to check specific dates of availability, contact Alaina Claire Feldman at 212.254.8200 x 127, or alaina@curatorsintl.org Accompanying this exhibition is the Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 catalogue. Please visit MIT Press for more information.

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