Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

ARCLines is an ongoing project documenting the origins of artist-run centres in British Columbia. The project focuses on significant archival images, original mandates, history of founding artists and other materials pertinent to the inception of local artist-run activity and is edited by Allison Collins.

1. ARCLines: Open to New Ideas: The Development of Open Space
2. ARCLines: Alternator: Cultivating Alternative Art in the Okanagan
3. ARCLines: Gallery Gachet: Art, Means, Survival
4. ARCLines: Vancouver Performs LIVE
5. ARCLines: W2: Creative Media Works Together
6. ARCLines: grunt - An Opening in the Scene
7. ARCLines: Setting Up Malaspina Printmakers
8. ARCLines: Some Other Sights
9. ARCLines: Fillip: Critical Writing Strikes
10. ARCLines: Kootenay School of Writing
11. ARCLines: Opening the Video Inn
12. ARCLines: Cineworks: A Cooperative Creation
13. ARCLines: Balcone : A Window In/Out
14. ARCLines: New Forms Festival
15. ARCLines: 221A: Designing Community
16. ARCLines: DYNAMO: Space to Make
17. ARCLines: Building Up Access
18. ARCLines: Unit/Pitt - Disorganization of Discontent
19. ARCLines: Drafting Artspeak
20. ARCLines: Or Gallery as it Began
21. ARCLines: The Origins of the Western Front

Institutions by Artists: Volume One presents a collection of texts addressing artist-run culture and initiatives around the globe. Newly commissioned essays include AA Bronson’s “Transfiguration of the Bureaucrat;” Vincent Bonin’s “Malaise dans le réseau: sur l’absence de la critique institutionnelle au Canada”; and Peta Rake’s “Inclusivity, Difference, and Isolation: Artist-Run Spaces in Brisbane,” as well as a conversation with Ola Khalidi and Diala Khasawnih of Makan, Amman, Jordan.

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1. AA Bronson: The Transfiguration of the Bureaucrat
2. Vincent Bonin: Here, bad news always arrives too late
3. Peta Rake: Inclusivity and Isolation: Artist-Run Initiatives in Brisbane
4. Ola El-Khalidi and Diala Khasawnih: Gastronomica Makan: An Ongoing Conversation
5. Markus Miessen: Architectural Space as Agent
6. Pan Wendt: Social Fabric
7. Luis Camnitzer: Art of the State
8. Jeffrey Swartz: Space-Run Artists: Art Activism and Urban Conflict in Contemporary Barcelona
9. Makiko Hara: Rethinking a History of Tokyo Art Speak
10. Keith Wallace: Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver: A Reflection on Three Texts
11. Michèle Faguet: A Brief Account of Two Artist-Run Spaces
12. Barnaby Drabble: We Want Everything

Institutions by Artists: Volume Two
Pacific Association of Artist run Centres and Fillip Magazine are pleased to present essays commissioned for or re-printed as part of Institutions by Artists: Philip Monk: “Crises (and Coping) in the Work of General Idea”; Matt Post & Chris Fitzpatrick: "A Productive Irritant: Parasitical Inhabitations in Contemporary Art", Christopher Regimbal: "Institutions of Regionalism: Artist-collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960-1990", Dana Claxton and Tania Willard: "Imperfect Compliance: A Trajectory of Transformation", Tania Bruguera: "Manifesto on Artists' Rights", Jesi Khadivi:"Artmoreorless: The Early Performances of Asco", Claire Tancons and Chris Cozier: "No More Than a Backyard on a Small Island."

1. Tania Bruguera: Manifesto on Artists’ Rights
2. Dana Claxton and Tania Willard: Imperfect Compliance: A Trajectory of Transformation
3. Christopher Régimbal: Institutions of Regionalism: Artist Collectivism in London, Ontario, 1960–1990
4. Jesi Khadivi: Artmoreorless: The Early Performances of Asco
5. Philip Monk: Crises (and Coping) in the Work of General Idea
6. Chris Fitzpatrick and Post Brothers: A Productive Irritant: Parasitical Inhabitations in Contemporary Art
7. Claire Tancons and Christopher Cozier: No More Than a Backyard on a Small Island

Considering Artist-run Centres is a compilation of essays and reports, commissioned for ArcPost or reprinted from Fillip magazine, that centre on artists' self-organization in diverse historical and geographical contexts.

1. Michael Turner and Reid Shier: Upon Further Reflection
2. Makiko Hara: Rethinking a History of Tokyo Art Speak
3. Keith Wallace: Artist-Run Centres in Vancouver: A Reflection on Three Texts
4. Clint Burnham: At Work 2
5. Michèle Faguet: A Brief Account of Two Artist-Run Spaces
6. Barnaby Drabble: We Want Everything

Associations is a series of conversations between Kristina Lee Podesva and members of international artist-led groups, collectives and organizations.

1. Associations: Signal to Noise
2. Associations: Interview with Vector Association Part 2
3. Associations: Interview with Vector Association Part 1