Attentionby January 15th. The full call below. perceive around the sanitized streets of any contemporary city,and there’s a secret, often subversive history at risk of being forgotten. What’s now the nanny’s room in Brownstone Brooklyn might’ve been a tiny gallery in a riotous punk house. An American Apparel could have once been domestic to a cooperatively-run storefront space. And undoubtedly, and those renovated loft condos once housed artists’ exhibition and studio spaces. Our cities are elephant graveyards of generations’ of artists aspirations and tough work made temporarily tangible. We ought to remember the artist-run space.
Art F City is pleased to announce We Are SO Not Getting the Security Deposit Back: a Guide to Defunct Artist-Run Spaces,a series of zines and e-books documenting the often-forgotten places where art making and viewing once happened. Well be releasing editions specific to cities such as fresh York, Baltimore, or Chicago,and beyond, but welcome submissions from anywhere. If you were once a proprietor of a now-defunct artist-run space, and know someone who was,drop us a line. Whether your blood, sweat, or tears are barely dry or have long ago been whitewashed over,we want to hear your memoir.
Submit answers to the questions below to submissions@artfcity.com
Source: artfcity.com