Nato Thompson

NATO THOMPSON is a writer and curator. He worked for a long time as a curator and now describes himself as a cultural infrastructure builder. He has written two books of non-fiction Culture as Weapon: The Art of Influence in Everyday Life (2017) and Seeing Power: Art and Activism in the 21st Century (2016) both with Melville House Publishing. His fiction book, Marshsong came out in February 2019. He writes on the intersection of power and dreams. He is the editor of Living as Form: Socially Engaged Art 1991-2011, Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, The Interventionists: A Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, a survey of political art of the 1990s, and Ahistoric Occasion: Artists Making History. He has curated numerous projects including Kara Walker's: A Subtlety, Jeremy Deller's: It is What it is, Living as Form, Trevor Paglen's: Last Pictures, Paul Chan's Waiting for Godot in New Orleans, and most recently Pedro Reyes': Doomocracy.