Interdisciplinary artist and advocate David Thomson delves into questions of care, listening, change, trust and resilience. How do we value ourselves and others? How do we redefine intentional care and success?<\/p>\n
These are some questions that have emerged through his work on The Sustainability Project, which focuses on ideas of financial, artistic, and personal empowerment in the arts community, and are woven into larger issues we continue to wrestle with culturally, socially and politically.<\/p>\n
David Thomson is a collaborative interdisciplinary artist. He has\u00a0worked with Trisha Brown, Susan Rethorst, Bebe Miller, Remy\u00a0Charlip, Grisha Coleman|Hot Mouth, Ralph Lemon, Sekou\u00a0Sundiata, Meg Stuart, Marina Abramovi\u0107, Yvonne Rainer, Deborah\u00a0Hay, Alain Buffard, Maria Hassabi, Yanira Castro, Okwui Okpokwasili\u00a0and Kaneza Schaal among many others. His current practice centers\u00a0on the interrogation of presence and absence as performative\u00a0states. He creates performance installations in a range of temporal\u00a0forms and mediums from short works to durational tasks. He has\u00a0received Bessies for Sustained Achievement (2001) and\u00a0Outstanding Production (2018) for he his own mythical beast<\/i>.\u00a0Thomson has been recognized for his own work with awards and\u00a0fellowships from NYFA, US Artist, LMCC, Yaddo, MacDowell and\u00a0Rauschenberg. He is currently a Mabou Mines Associate Artist,\u00a0LMCC Extended Life | Lifeline Fellow (2018-21) and Danspace Artist\u00a0Research Fellow. He has served on the faculties of Movement\u00a0Research, NYU\/Experimental Theater Wing, Sarah Lawrence, The\u00a0New School, Barnard, Pratt and Bennington. In 2017, he initiated\u00a0The Sustainability Project in collaboration with Kate Watson-Wallace, which serves as a platform and practice that seeks to\u00a0expand the discourse surrounding ideas of financial, artistic, and\u00a0personal empowerment within the arts community. Thomson holds\u00a0a BA in Interdisciplinary Studies from SUNY Purchase.<\/p>\n
The Deeper Lecture Series<\/strong><\/em> is a talk + Q&A program on Zoom designed to acquaint Gibney\u2019s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative, influential and inspiring minds at work in the arts, humanities and activism.<\/p>\n All Fall 2021 Season events will be held online via Zoom. Gibney’s Box Office can be reached via email. For ticketing inquiries or requests, please email Marketing & Audience Services Manager, Kimiko Tanabe, at boxoffice@gibneydance.org.<\/p>\n