{"id":24804,"date":"2017-09-18T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T13:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=24804"},"modified":"2017-09-18T01:25:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T06:25:04","slug":"austin-peay-state-university-art-design-welcome-nato-thompson-for-artist-lecture-on-september-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2017\/09\/18\/austin-peay-state-university-art-design-welcome-nato-thompson-for-artist-lecture-on-september-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Peay State University Art + Design welcome Nato Thompson for artist lecture on September 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – The Austin Peay State University Department of Art + Design, along with the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA), will present Nato Thompson, author, curator and artistic director of Creative Time, at 6:00pm on September 20th, 2017 for an artist lecture in the Art + Design Building\u2019s Heydel Hall.<\/p>\n

\"Nato<\/a><\/p>\n

Thompson joined Creative Time in January 2007, where he has organized such major projects as The Creative Time Summit (2009\u20132015), Pedro Reyes\u2019 Doomocracy<\/em> (2016), Kara Walker\u2019s A Subtlety<\/em> (2014), Living as Form<\/em> (2011), Trevor Paglen\u2019s The Last Pictures<\/em> (2012), Paul Ram\u00edrez Jonas\u2019s Key to the City<\/em> (2010), Jeremy Deller\u2019s It is What it is<\/em> (2009, with New Museum curators Laura Hoptman and Amy Mackie), Democracy in America: The National Campaign<\/em> (2008), and Paul Chan\u2019s Waiting for Godot in New Orleans<\/em> (2007), among others.<\/p>\n

Previously, he worked as curator at MASS MoCA, where he completed numerous large-scale exhibitions, including The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere<\/em> (2004), with a catalogue distributed by MIT Press. His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including BookForum<\/em>, Frieze<\/em>, Artforum<\/em>, Third Text<\/em>, and Huffington Post<\/em>. In 2005, he received the Art Journal Award for distinguished writing.<\/p>\n

For Independent Curators International, Thompson curated the exhibition Experimental Geography<\/em> with a book available from Melville House Publishing. He has written two books of cultural criticism, Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century<\/em> (2015) and Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life,<\/em> to be published in January 2017.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in the power of dreams to produce change in the world,\u201d he said. \u201cOften that has been a project produced and driven forward by artists. But I am also aware that the game of seduction goes far beyond where artists exist in today’s world. That is why I both push forward with art and artists, but also am aware of a complex landscape where making culture is part of many facets of daily life. I think to be relevant in the 21st century in terms of culture making, one needs to confront this complex landscape head-on in order to find now opportunities, escapes, and revolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Heydel Hall is room 120 of the Art + Design Building. All events for the Department of Art + Design are free and open to the public. For more information on the exhibitions or lectures, contact Michael Dickins, gallery director, at dickinsm@apsu.edu<\/a>. To stay informed of upcoming events or scheduling changes, follow the Department of Art + Design on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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