INDEPENDENT CURATORS INTERNATIONAL exhibitions

Living as Form (The Nomadic Version)

Suzanne Lacy, The Roof is on Fire, 1993-94. Courtesy the artist.
The Complaints Choir, Chicago. Courtesy Clare Britt, 2007.
Women on Waves. Ecuador, June 2008. Courtesy Women on Waves.
Suzanne Lacy, The Roof is on Fire, 1993-94. Courtesy the artist.
Elin Wikström. What would happen if everybody did this?, 1993. Courtesy the artist.
Living as Form (The Nomadic Version), exterior view. Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco, 2011.
Curated by Nato Thompson

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 50 projects as the foundation of this exhibition, which will expand as it travels. New additions will be selected by each host institution, increasing the diversity of works made in the last 20 years that are represented in the show. Circulating via a hard drive, on which the new projects will be uploaded, Living as Form (The Nomadic Version) will provide a broad look at a vast array of socially engaged practices that appear with increasing regularity in fields ranging from theater to activism, and urban planning to visual art.

In addition to expanding the content of the exhibition, each host institution will organize site-specific, socially engaged, commissioned projects or events that connect to the theme and “activate” the show. As the essence of the works is rooted in social engagement, the host will also provide participatory experiences that possess some political content for visitors’ experience.

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.

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Curator

Nato Thompson

Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at Creative Time, New York, as well as a writer and activist. Among his public projects for Creative Time are Tania Bruguera’s Immigrant Movement International, Democracy in America: The National Campaign, and Waiting for Godot, a project by Paul Chan held in New Orleans. His book Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the Age of Cultural Production will be published in October 2012 by Melville House Publishing. Thompson was formerly a curator at MASS MoCA, and he also curated ICI’s Experimental Geography, which traveled to eight venues in North America.

Artists

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Ala Plastica, Alternate ROOTS, Appalshop, BijaRi, Cemeti Art House, Complaints Choir, Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency, Chto delat/What is to be done?, Federico Guzmán and Alonso Gil, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Helena Producciones, Fran Ilich, Suzanne Lacy, Rick Lowe, Mammalian Diving Reflex/Darren O’Donnell, Zayd Minty, Oda Projesi, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Athi-Patra Ruga, Katernia Šedá, Chemi Rosado Seijo, Tahrir Square (2011), Taller Popular de Serigrafía (TPS), Ultra-red, Urban Bush Women, WochenKlausur, Women on Waves, Claire Barclay, Basurama, Céline and Gavin Wade Condorelli, Cybermohalla Ensemble, Josh Greene, Fritz Haeg, Farid Jahangir and Sassan Nassiri, Bita Fayyazi, Ata Hasheminejad, and Khosrow Hassanzedeh, Lara Almarcegui, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Mardi Gras Indian Community, Vik Muniz, Pase Usted, Navin Rawanchaikul, Slanguage (Founded by Mario Ybarra Jr., Karla Diaz, and Juan Capistran), The U.S. Social Forum (U.S.S.F.), Voina, Peter Watkins, WikiLeaks, Elin Wikström

Touring Schedule

  • Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    Harvard University, Cambridge MA
    October 23, 2013 - December 20, 2013
  • Richard E. Peeler Art Center
    DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
    September 5, 2013 - December 6, 2013
  • CCI Fabrika
    Moscow, Russia
    February 4, 2013 - February 28, 2013
  • The Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design
    Philadelphia, PA
    January 26, 2013 - March 16, 2013
  • ARTifariti
    Tifariti, Western Sahara
    October 15, 2012 - October 30, 2012
  • University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego
    San Diego, California
    October 4, 2012 - December 14, 2012
  • Videotage
    Hong Kong
    October 1, 2012 - November 18, 2012
  • McDonough Museum of Art
    Youngstown, Ohio
    September 7, 2012 - November 9, 2012
  • Bat-Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism
    Bat-Yam, Israel
    September 6, 2012 - October 4, 2012
  • Kadist Art Foundation
    San Francisco, California
    March 10, 2012 - May 12, 2012

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, Exhibitions Coordinator, at 212.254.8200 x 127, or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Accompanying this exhibition is the Living As Form: Socially Engaged Art from 1991-2011 catalogue. Please visit MIT Press for more information.