The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life

A reader and field guide to artistic activism, edited by Nato Thompson and Gregory Sholette and published by MASS MoCA, with the MIT Press distributing.

The book accompanied the exhibition The Interventionists: Art in the Social Sphere, shown at MASS MoCA from May 2004 to March 2005, with 29 artists and collectives and eight new commissions. The show had four sections: Nomads, Reclaim the Streets, Ready to Wear and The Experimental University. Participants included William Pope.L, Lucy Orta, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Michael Rakowitz, Reverend Billy and The Yes Men. The 154-page volume was edited by Thompson and Sholette, with Joseph Thompson, Nicholas Mirzoeff and C. Ondine Chavoya, and designed by Arjen Noordeman.

Nato Thompson organized the show as a curator at MASS MoCA, then became chief curator at Creative Time in 2007, where he organized Living as Form (2011). He wrote Seeing Power (Melville House, 2012). Gregory Sholette is a New York artist and professor at Queens College, CUNY. He co-founded Political Art Documentation/Distribution with Lucy R. Lippard and the group REPOhistory, and wrote Dark Matter (2010).