The Interventionists

The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere – A widely-cited exhibition of contemporary interventionist art and design work curated by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette at the MASS MoCA in 2004: “Over the course of the 1990s, the term “intervention” was increasingly used by politically engaged artists to describe their interdisciplinary approaches, which nearly always took place outside the realm of museums, galleries and studios. A decade later, these “interventionists” continue to create an impressive body of work that trespasses into the everyday world — art that critiques, lampoons, interrupts, and co-opts, art that acts subtlety or with riotous fanfare, and art that agitates for social change using magic tricks, faux fashion and jacked-up lawn mowers”. An imperfect proof of theĀ  exhibition calogue can be downloaded for free along with other essays on Gregory Sholette’s website.

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