Building on Artists Space's history as an institution whose program has increasingly emphasized community participation and political organization (see last year's Decolonize This Place, which turned the gallery into a weekly activist meeting hub), Coop
Fund foregoes traditional media like painting or sculpture in favor of video, art - science
hybrids, updated junk sculpture, and institutional critique, making an implicit statement about these media that, for their associations with high - modernist seriousness, are
appropriate to a politically engaged exhibition.