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Theaster Gates (born August 28, 1973) is an American social practice installation artist and a professor in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where he still lives and works. Gates' work has been shown at major museums and galleries internationally and deals with issues of urban planning, religious space, and craft. He is committed to the revitalization of poor neighborhoods through combining urban planning and art practices.

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All kinds of performance practices have a certain register of power or solemnity.

Kind, Kinds, Power, Practice, Solemnity

The reason artists want to have works in museums is that we want our works to be seen by as many people as possible and we want our ideas to be understood in more complicated ways.

Artist, Complicated, Ideas, Museums, People, Ways

What I think museums do very well is that they say to a public, "We have some stuff that's worth looking at. "

Looking, Museums, Stuff, Thinking, Worth

Modernism was influenced by what they call a primativist ethic.

Call, Ethic, Ethics, Influenced, Modernism, Primativist

It's not really about the material. It's about our capacity to shape things.

Capacity, Material, Materials, Shape, Shapes

I think I'm a full-time artist, a full-time urban planner, and a full-time preacher with an aspiration of no longer needing any of those titles. Rather, I'm trying to do what for some seems a very messy work or a complicated work.

Artist, Longer, Needing, Preacher, Thinking, Trying

I'm not a preacher, but I preach. I'm not a Buddhist, but I chant. I'm not race theorist, but I have questions and ponderances around the complexities of race and class and culture wherever I am.

Buddhist, Class, Race, Wherever

Sometimes the creating that we do is creating a platform that allows other creative people to pitch in.

Creating, Creative, People, Pitch

It's really exciting to know that people want to use the house as a house and want to live there although it hasn't been a used, occupied space in 50 or 60 years.

Exciting, Live, People, Space, Used, Years

I have the willingness to think fully about where opportunities are and where they live.

Fully, Live, Opportunities, Opportunity, Thinking, Willingness

I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Basic, Beauty, Believe, I Believe, Service

I think I'm passionately allowing myself to be influenced by the things that are around me.

Allowing, Passionately, Things, Think, Thinking

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.

Art, Looking, Museum, Museums, Sends, Thinking