about the book

artXposium 2.0: an artINcorporators project in West Chicago
edited by Anni Holm, Irene Pérez, and Meghan Borato
Available September 19, 2008
ISBN 978-0-9802300-3-1/LCCN 2008933830
soft cover/US $19.95

“With artXposium, the main goal is to bring the art to the people, rather than trying to bring the people to the art. It is also a platform for community and connectedness, to encourage people to break down the figurative and literal ‘white picket fences’ of the suburbs. … Perhaps we can imagine wanting to revive the dead horse, getting on it and moving forward, in order to get a better insight into our own lives and break down some of the presumptions we have about each other."
—Anni Holm, from the Introduction

artXposium 2.0 is a book chronicling the development of an annual multimedia art experience in the city of West Chicago. The event artXposium is the brainchild of local resident and internationally shown artist Anni Holm and former registrar of the West Chicago City Museum, Brian Reis. Together with assistant organizer Irene Pérez, many volunteers, and over sixty artists, they created a three-day event in the former Grobe's True Value store, a large space which lent itself to works ranging from painting, sculpture, and photography to interactive installations and video screenings. The ultimate goal of the 2007 exhibition was to develop an International Artists Residency for West Chicago, a goal that is being realized in late summer of 2008 with the arrival of Danish artist Gudrun Hasle. Gudrun's projects will be exhibited at the West Chicago City Museum, and she will be a part of the programming at artXposium 2008.

The book form for artXposium 2.0 began as an idea for a catalog that grew into a larger project, with essays by several participants and viewers of the 2007 exhibition, an introduction to the purpose and background of this project by Anni Holm, and images from over sixty participating artists. The launch for artXposium 2.0 coincides with a weekend-long exhibition and program of art events from September 19-21, 2008 in West Chicago, with details online at artXposium.org.

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