Creative Time chief curator Nato Thonpson will give free talk about upcoming exhibition August 2 at the Cooper Union
Rose Auditorium, the Cooper Union
41 Cooper Square
Tuesday, August 2, free, 6:30
www.creativetime.org
From September 23 to October 16, the nonprofit arts initiative Creative Time will be holding the ambitious exhibition “Living as Form” in the abandoned fifteen-thousand-square-foot Essex Market Building, where they previously sponsored Mike Nelson’s “A Psychic Vacuum” in fall 2007. A complex environment constructed by twenty-five curators and more than one hundred artists covering some 350 international projects over twenty years and including nine new site-specific commissions in the surrounding neighborhood, the exhibit focuses on art and activism, highlighting socially engaged works that challenge the status quo. Creative Time is getting the pubic ready for “Living as Form” by holding a series of special events in anticipation of the opening. On Tuesday, August 2, the organization’s chief curator, Nato Thompson, will be be giving a free talk at the Cooper Union, followed by a Q&A moderated by Doug Ashford, an artist, activist, and associate professor at the downtown institution. Creative Time will also host its third annual public summit on September 23 at NYU’s Skirball Center ($45), focusing on socially engaged art, bringing together artists, writers, critics, curators, and art lovers in all-day discussions and presentations.