Alan W. Moore

I write about political art and culture. Changing the world is the only thing that really matters. As a New Yorker for some 30 years, I worked with the artists’ groups Colab and helped start the cultural center ABC No Rio. I was a critic for Artforum and the East Village Eye, and made video art and installations from the mid-1970s into the 1980s. In 1986 I started the MWF Video Club artists' distribution project (ended 2000), the basis for the New Museum's 2013 show XFR STN. In the early 1990s I earned a PhD in art history from City University of New York. I have written articles and chapters artists’ groups, cultural districts and cultural economies. I wrote "Art Gangs: Protest and Counterculture in New York City" (Autonomedia 2011), and chapters for Julie Ault, ed., "Alternative Art NY"; Blake Stimson & Gregory Sholette, eds., "Collectivism after Modernism"; and Clayton Patterson et al. eds., "Resistance: A Political History of the Lower East Side". I currently run the “House Magic” project on self-organized occupied social centers (7 zines, '09-'16; http://house-magic.net/issues/). In 2013 I received a Warhol Foundation Artswriter grant to write "Occupation Culture: Art and Squatting in the City From Below," about art and occupations (Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, 2015). I presently live in Milwaukee and Madrid. I blog at "Occupations & Properties" http://occuprop.blogspot.com.