Artist-run initiative
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An artist-run initiative (ARI) is any projects run by visual artists to present their and others' projects. They might approximate a traditional art gallery space in appearance or function, or they may take a markedly different approach, limited only by the artist's understanding of the term. "Artist-run initiatives" is an umbrella name for many types of artist generated activity.
Important historical artist-run initiatives include The Wrong Gallery (using a disused doorway to display work) in New York City in the 2000s, and City Racing (an old betting shop) in London in the 1990s. Damien Hirst's one-off exhibition Freeze in a London warehouse in the 1990s could also be said to be a temporary, yet important, artist run initiative. Artist run initiatives have used cars, briefcases, and other unusual exhibition venues where traditional spaces were too expensive or limited. Cuckoo is a New Zealand-based artist-run initiative where its members use other people's spaces to present their program, like a cuckoo bird does by placing its own eggs descreetly into the nests of other birds.
[edit] Artist-run initiatives by country
- UK artist-run initiatives
- U.S. artist-run initiatives
- Dutch artist-run initiatives
- Australian artist-run initiatives
- New Zealand artist-run initiatives
- [[Norwegian artist-run initiatives][1]
