The Artist-Run Space of the Future
A research brief and some incomplete thoughts about the artist-run space of the future from the Institute for Applied Aesthetics, Office of Research Experiment Stations.
Artist-Run Space (n.)
Artist-run spaces fit all kinds of models. They are testing grounds and springboards to the commercial art world, intimate gatherings in apartments, and places for reading groups and shared meals. They are little pockets of activity that serve particular audiences at particular times, filling gaps and holes for all that the art-world fails to provide. Sometimes they are meant to be temporary, and other times they can grow to become professionalized institutions that a later generation of artists define themselves against.
from “Making-do: a pragmatist approach,” InCUBATE. Artist-run Chicago Digest, Copyright threewalls/Green Lantern press, Chicago, IL: October 2009
