The Artists Run Chicago Digest

by Caroline Picard, Lori Waxman, John Neff

The ARC Digest is meant to archive in print the activities of Chicago s artist-run spaces between 1999-2009. It acts both as a companion to the exhibition and an extension of that project with interviews by Dan Gunn, essays by Abigail Satinsky, The Pond, Scott Speh and John Neff, Mary Jane Jacob and Lori Waxman, and an accompanying audio program by Bad At Sports featuring an interview with Temporary Services and a panel of Chicago artist-run media organizers. Interviews, essays and responses along with floor plans, exhibition histories and other visuals archive and present a 10-year time period in Chicago s artist-run culture while providing history, reflection, critique and dialog about artist-run culture, its importance, difficulties, sustainability and necessity as well as its specificity to a community and generation.

136 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2009

Reviews

[Lou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really informative, interesting to read people reflecting on their projects. Not being from Chicago, reading the parts where the galleries are name-dropping names I don't know was weird, does make you wonder about the ultimate importance of working with artists can be..