Lauren Mackler is a curator and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. In 2010 she founded the arts venue and journal Public Fiction in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles. Mackler/Public Fiction recently curated exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the MAK Center’s Schindler House in Los Angeles.
Alive From Off Center: Art on Public Access TV
“In this show you’ll find out what television might look like in the hands of artists,” proclaimed the opener for Alive From Off Center, a public access TV show created by the Walker Art Center and Twin Cities Public Television from 1985 to 1996. Featured artists, from William Wegman and Meredith Monk to Spalding Gray and Laurie Anderson, “grew up watching television, and now they use the medium to poke fun at itself.”