Hyperallergic
January 9, 2018
After 15 Years, LA’s Machine Project Closes with a Farewell Event
The contemporary art space announced last week that it will soon be closing, but not before throwing a farewell party and print sale this Saturday.
Poetry Foundation
January 5, 2018
Los Angeles’s Machine Project to Close
The artist-run space Machine Project, based in Los Angeles, is shutting its doors after 15 years, reports Artforum. If you've gone through LA as a poet, there's a chance you may have read here, or in the 18-seat Victorian opera house in the basement, where Anthony McCann hosted the Mystery Theater Poetry readings, with guest curators Joseph Mosconi, Dolores Dorantes, and Machine Project Founder and Executive Director, Mark Allen, in 2015. More recently, Machine welcomed the Wave Books 5-day poetry marathon, in conjunction with AWP.
Art Forum
January 5, 2018
After Fifteen Years, Los Angeles’s Machine Project Shutters
Machine Project, an artist-run performance and installation nonprofit space located in Los Angeles, has announced that it will close. Founded by artist, educator, and curator Mark Allen in 2003, the alternative arts space investigated art, technology, natural history, science, music, literature, and food through shows it hosted in its storefront in Echo Park and events staged at major art institutions such as the Los Angeles Country Museum of Art and the Hammer Museum.
LA Times
January 5, 2018
After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors
The opening was short and sweet. In fact, the 2003 debut piece by Kelly Sears at Machine Project, the artist-run space in Echo Park, took all of 10 minutes. “It was her and this guy, Ian, and they had this 10-minute metal show,” says founder Mark Allen of Sears’ “Sexy Midi.” “They had videos, these animations of wizards and crystals. The doors opened at exactly 10 p.m. and the doors were locked at 10:10 p.m. By 10:21 everyone had to leave.”