New Publication launch in Fall 2010 Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations in Los Angeles

A compendium of works, thoughts, essays and a directory of artist-run projects.

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Edited by Ronni Kimm, with Jesse Aron Green

Essay by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer

Featuring contributions from artist-run projects, Artist Curated Project, ESL, Genesis, Material, Monte Vista Gallery, Slab, TELIC and Wildness; and thoughts and anecdotes from Kate Fowle, Rika Hiro, Songmi Huff, Thomas Lawson, Paul McCarthy, Erlea Maneros, Yoshua Okon, and Renaud Proch

Directory of artist-run and non-profit organizations

Specially commissioned 'Star Chart' to help navigate the scene by artist Jim Skuldt

Jim Skuldt, Skelturd's Norginomical Star Chart, 2010

Over the past several years ART2102 has acted as a platform for artists and curators in Los Angeles to realize their projects and exhibitions. From its space in Boyle Heights, ART2102 hosted a vibrant program known for its open cultural discourse and flexibility of ideas, and for engaging both local and international artists at various stages in their careers. Gradually, ART2102 moved away from this physical site as its programming and initiatives engaged with the large network of other artists-run spaces across Los Angeles and Southern California.

Dispatches and Directions, the final publication and project of ART2102, will not simply document this history, but will also emulate the organization's role as a platform and a network by spotlighting a number of the artists-run collaborations that are currently active in LA, and that will continue to thrive as ART2102 recedes. The publication will not only provide space in which these organizations can describe their work, but will also look at the legacy of ART2102 in light of the diverse range of programming emulated by these groups.

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