live blogging you are here: Nato Thompson

here we are at day two of the YOU ARE HERE symposium at the Aurora Picture show and presented by the University of Houston. I rocked the house last night with future so bright, and today comes the smart stuff.
first up is Nato Thompson giving a lecture about his upcoming show Experimental Geography and talking about artists who look interrogate their environments. Nato is a curator artist who currently works at Creative Time and curated the The Interventionists show at MassMoCa and recently produced Waiting for Godot in New Orleans with artist Paul Chan. I like this idea of experimental geography; “Geography benefits from the study of specific histories, sites, and memories. Every estuary, landfill, and cul-de-sac has a story to tell. The task of the geographer is to alert us to what is directly in front of us, while the task of the experimental geographer—an amalgam of scientist, artist, and explorer—is to do so in a manner that deploys aesthetics, ambiguity, poetry, and a dash of empiricism.”

“your finger nails grow at the same rate that the tectonic plates move.”