The Backroom is a research-oriented project that was initiated for a temporary project space in Culver City, LA. From September to December 2005 an evolving line-up of artists, filmmakers, writers and architects presented source materials that inform and support their practice, creating an expanding compilation of objects, videos, magazines, photographs, ephemera, data and written anecdotes.
For The Backroom: SF, San Francisco Camerawork and New Langton Arts have collaborated for the first time to co-present the complete accumulation of source material.
Also presenting source materials from The Backroom/LA: Akasegawa Genpei (compiled by Reiko Tomii), Anthony Auerbach, Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, Walead Beshty, Jennifer Bornstein, Anne Collier, Dennis Crompton (Archigram), Vaginal Davis, Olivier Debroise, Jeremy Deller, Kota Ezawa, Vince Fecteau, Sam Green, David Hatcher, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jess, Paul Ramírez Jonas, William Jones, Adria Julia, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, Thomas Lawson, Jesse Lerner, Lu Jie, Marko Lulic, Erlea Maneros, Ari Marcopoulos, Euan MacDonald, John Menik, Julian Myers, Michelle O’Marah, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Raqs Media Collective, Tercerunquinto, Mario Garcia Torres, Jeffrey Vallance, Miguel Ventura, Mark Verabioff, Bruce Yonemoto
The Backroom is run by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch
For further information please visit: www.the-backroom.org