Seeing Power

Synopsis

A significant meditation on political art and the politics of art by the country’s most celebrated young curator A fog of information and images has flooded the from advertising, television, radio, and film to the information glut produced by the new economy. With the rise of social networking, even our contemporaries, peers, and friends are all suddenly selling us the ultimate themselves. Here curator and critic Nato Thompson interrogates the implications of these developments for those dedicated to socially engaged art and activism.