Taking Place

Erin Silver's study follows feminist and queer alternative art spaces in Canada and the United States, from the late 1960s to the present day.

At its core is the question of how queer and feminist artists working today relate to the institutions they inherited. The book looks at whether these makers work within those structures, respond to them, or push against them.

The book moves through a series of regional case studies, examining the different meanings of 'alternative' as a idea about space. Along the way, it considers what that term makes possible for queer and feminist ideas about artistic life and imagination.