Art2102
Founded in 2003, Art2102 maintained an exhibition space in Boyle Heights for three years before letting it go to focus on facilitating independent projects. Billing itself as a "catalyst for collaboration," this nonprofit works with curators and other organizations to produce exhibitions, discussions, screenings and other events. Sponsors a curator-in-residence program.
No exhibition space
www.art2102.org
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Betalevel
Located in a basement down an alley not far from the Full House Seafood Restaurant in Chinatown, Betalevel is hidden away and seems to prefer it that way. The eccentric variety of events here includes bingo, digital file-sharing/karaoke parties and "Ambient Haircut," an event combining live ambient music and free haircuts.
See website for location
www.betalevel.com
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Center for Land Use Interpretation
Devoted to looking at the way we use and interpret land, CLUI is a sort of role model for alternative institutions in L.A. It espouses a rigorous, inquisitive, multidisciplinary approach to exploring contemporary life and produces exhibitions, conducts tours, publishes books, organizes lectures and presentations, and maintains a database of "unusual and exemplary sites throughout the United States."
9331 Venice Blvd. Culver City
www.clui.org
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Dangerous Curve
Co-directors Kathryn Hargreaves and Tim Quinn host exhibitions and performances. The result: an elegant, peaceful space that's become, among other things, one of L.A.'s primary venues for experimental music.
1020 E. 4th Place, Los Angeles
www.dangerouscurve.org
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Farmlab/Under Spring
Part exhibition space, part performance venue, part eco-urban think tank, Farmlab sponsors projects and events that encourage a conscientious, sustainable integration of natural resources and the urban environment.
1745 N. Spring St., Unit 4, Los Angeles
www.farmlab.org
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Institute for Figuring
Sponsors exhibitions (online and in various other locales), books and lectures devoted to the exploration of figures and figuring techniques -- "from the physics of snowflakes and the hyperbolic geometry of sea slugs, to the mathematics of paper folding, the tiling patterns of Islamic mosaics and graphical models of the human mind." Recent events include lectures on knot theory and "the ecology of a termite's gut."
No exhibition space
