Front/Space is a live/work storefront apartment repurposed for non-commercial exhibitions, installations, and publishing projects. As an organizational practice, the residents produce the space for discursive platforms (lectures, video installation, living documents), vowing reverence for, but critical of, social context. Located in downtown Kansas City, new exhibitions open monthly.
A year in the making, Civilian is a book-length compilation of essays, photography, illustration, fiction, poetry, reporting, and reviews. Civilian brings artist and writers together into an inquiry about their roles in the city. We promise to excite intellects, slow the beat, steady our imaginations, and broaden audiences for art and literature. We want readers to become as occupied as we have been with how the city’s cultural identity, history, and politics are constructed.
