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News & ArtsTuesday, December 6, 2011
Arts / Visual Art Tonight: Occupy Cultural Space, with Theaster Gates
Posted by Jen Graves on Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:02 PM
- Courtesy of Kavi Gupta CHICAGO
- Theaster Gates's Seattle blitz starts tonight.
The Chicago-based artist is in Seattle this week for the opening of his exhibition, The Listening Room, at Seattle Art Museum.
Unlike most artists, he'll be out in public constantly while he's here, giving talks and organizing conversations about how we use and plan for culture in our city. He once lived here, so he cares about this place—more than just as a drive-by place for exhibition—but he also cares about places in general. He's an urban planner as much as an artist. It seems like failure, for him, could mean leaving a city exactly the way he found it.
Tonight is a talk and a panel discussion about how to create new and better space for culture in Seattle, at Town Hall, starting at 6:30. It continues tomorrow morning with a working session. Thursday night he'll talk at the museum at 7:30.
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