Founded in San Francisco in 1984, Artists’ Television Access has persisted as an artist-run, non-profit organization for emerging, experimental, weird, and challenging moving-image work for over thirty-five years, fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas. It provides an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events.
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Claire Bain & Alfred Hernandez, FS17ATA2019, 2019. Performance still. Courtesy of the artists and Artists Television Access.
Jennifer Locke, Snow Globe, 2019. Performance still. Courtesy of the artist and Artists Television Access.
Kerry Laitala, Figments in Film, 2019. Film still, Running time 8 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Artists Television Access.
Suzie McMurtry, Me in the Park 1933, 2019. Graphite, dye, collage & oil on canvas, 36 x 60 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Artists Television Access.
Carlos Gonzalez, Performance by Russian Tsarlag, 2019. . Performance still. Courtesy of the artist and Artists Television Access.
“The terrific range of project proposals we receive each year speaks to the mobile and porous disciplinary boundaries of contemporary art practice, and to the rich and inventive ways writers approach art today. They are alert to the urgent need to expand the conventions of art history and criticism with ideas from other discourses, such as black studies, transnational and diaspora studies, gender and women’s studies, and LGBT studies. The work of lesser known and overlooked artists and art communities continues to be mined, with writers articulating new ways to counter the striking imbalances of race, class and gender that continue to affect the arts and the culture industry.”