On October 9th and 10th, Creative Time is set to converge more than 40 critical cultural producers in a second iteration of their popular and successful Revolutions summit.
Curator Nato Thompson’s selections are formed in response to the many unanswered questions in public practice:
“Is there a benefit to calling this work art and must such a category be used?” “To what end are some of the works merely gestures and lacking in political efficacy?” “Who is the audience for this work?” “What are the evaluative criteria from which socially engaged art can be assessed?”
In this year’s curatorial statement, Nato takes the third of those questions as the most salient. If it is true that political art preaches to the choir, an oft-heard criticism that was raised at last year’s summit, he asks, “Who is the choir?”, and enumerates his efforts to change its composition. The 2010 summit includes presenters from around the globe, and Nato:
intentionally considered the degree of social capital that each artist possesses in order to acknowledge and represent a vast community of artists who not only demure from the spotlight, but may in fact see individual financial success as running counter to their activist aspirations.
Creative Time furthers these efforts by offering a live broadcast of presentations via the web, and by holding a public discussion, moderated by Gregory Sholette, online after the summit.
Tickets, available at $50 for a weekend pass, or $35 for a day pass, are available here.
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