Democracy In America: The National Campaign

Monday, September 22nd, 2008 | Pop Culture Notions, Power & Politics

I just returned to Brooklyn from the opening of Democracy In America: The National Campaign at the massive Park Avenue Armory.

If you are in NYC, go see this show, it is up all week. You’ll witness artist installations, performances, political bookshops & organizations, and a group called InCUBATE that is raising money for the arts by selling steaming-hot bowls of Minestrone Soup.

Creative Time’s Nato Thompson curated the exhibition (Nato was formerly Curator at MASS MoCA and is co-editor of the The Interventionists: Users’ Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life along with Gregory Sholette)

Here is exhibition’s web-presence at CreativeTime.org

In the words of Creative Time’s press release,

Democracy in America: The National Campaign culminates in the “convergence center”: a Major Exhibition and event series in New York City’s historic Park Avenue Armory providing an activated space to both reflect on and perform democracy, and a living forum with speeches by political thinkers, artists, and community activists.

Please look through these images and a quick edit of video shot on a little digital camera.

-Tonky