Teacher Tour: Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination

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Join us this November to tour Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, discuss classroom implications, and connect with colleagues. Teacher Tours are led by MCA Artist Guides who are experts at using inquiry and dialogue to engage students in learning about contemporary art and ideas.

Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination presents a series of immersive film and video installations that pushes the limits of her media to imagine animal experience in natural habitats. The works in the exhibition—which fall somewhere between sculpture and architecture—break out of the video rectangle to imagine fluid worlds within the animal kingdom. Diana Thater (American, b. 1962) pioneers the physical, optical, and conceptual to push the boundaries of how moving images are experienced. This exhibition, the most comprehensive survey of the artist's work to date, includes early as well as recent works.

This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and cocurated by Lynne Cooke, Senior Curator of Special Projects in Modern Art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at LACMA. The Chicago presentation is coordinated by Joey Orr.