In 1992, in a Seattle storefront gallery, Andy Horwitz watched a friend perform a solo show for fifty people—and felt something he spent the next three decades chasing: the electric sense that something irreplaceable was happening in that room, right then, among those people.
Satori in a Storefront collects six interlocking essays originally published on Culturebot.org in March-April 2024 about why small, in-person gatherings carry a transformative power that mass spectacle can’t replicate.
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THE VIEW FROM HERE
The View From Here is the culminating report of The Brooklyn Commune Project (BKCP) a grassroots initiative organized by Culturebot and The Invisible Dog Art Center to educate, activate and unify performing artists of all disciplines to work together towards a more equitable, just and sustainable arts ecology in America.
It is a comprehensive 52 page document examining the current state of the performing arts in the United States, how we got here and possible futures – all from the perspective of artists.
The document was collaboratively created through the research, investigation and writing of a core group of artists and artist/administrators and was presented at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in 2014. It has been and continues to be widely read by artists and artist/administrators in the U.S. and around the world.
THE INNOVATION AGENDA
The Innovation Agenda is a series of six essays taking a critical look at innovation culture, its assumptions, influences and impact. Published between October 16-21, 2013 the essays interrogate the oft-unquestioned frameworks and values underpinning “innovation” and “disruption” and problematize the application of market-driven economic theories to not-for-profit endeavors in the “human economy”.
Essays include:
- Questioning The Innovation Agenda
- The Appearance of Innovation
- Corporate Influence and the Innovation Agenda
- Seeing Value In The Arts
- Business As Usual In the Innovation Industry
- Invention, Innovation & Creating Real Change