A Descent Record of Activities on Axe Street Stairs 1986-1988
Chicago: Axe Street Arena, ca 1988. 21cm x 18cm. Black and red painted cardstock wraps with a diagonal cut to top right corner as issued, string bound, illustrated throughout with black and white photographs, drawings, and text, near fine.
The Axe Street Arena Collective was a community arts center located in the Logan Square of Chicago from approximately 1985-1989. Most of the members lived and worked out of the collective gallery and performance space at the top of the Goldblatt Building at 2778 N. Milwaukee. Their focus was politically-minded art and exchanging ideas.
According to this record, in 1986 "graffiti artist establish the use of stairway as art" and the collective members are inspired to use the four flights of stairs as another exhibit hall of sorts. This publication is meant to serve as a record of those activities with photographs, drawings, and text. "It is a collage or block of space-time that yields a new poetic whole. Installations as raw material like words on a page."
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