The Backroom: SF January 25, 2006

San Francisco ? Camerawork and New Langton Arts have collaborated for the first time to host the backroom for one month; opening the gallery as an informal reading, meeting and viewing room, as well as hosting one-time events. the backroom is a research-oriented project that provides access to source materials which inform and support artists? practice. Accumulated over five months, the temporary archive presents objects, videos, magazines, photographs, ephemera, data and written anecdotes from an evolving line-up of artists, filmmakers, writers, and architects.

Source materials will be presented from: Akasegawa Genpei (compiled by Reiko Tomii), Anthony Auerbach, Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, Walead Beshty, Jennifer Bornstein, Anne Collier, Dennis Crompton (Archigram), Vaginal Davis, Olivier Debroise, Jeremy Deller, Kota Ezawa, Vince Fecteau, Mario Garcia Torres, Sam Green, David Hatcher, Carl Michael von Hausswolff, Jess, Paul Ramírez Jonas, William Jones, Adria Julia, Stephen Kaltenbach, Allan Kaprow, Thomas Lawson, Jesse Lerner, Lu Jie, Marko Lulic, Erlea Maneros, Ari Marcopoulos, Euan MacDonald, John Menick, Julian Myers, Michelle O?Marah, Henrik Plenge Jakobsen, Raqs Media Collective, Tercerunquinto, Jeffrey Vallance, Miguel Ventura, Mark Verabioff and Bruce Yonemoto ? the backroom is run by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle and Renaud Proch

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 12:00 ? 5:00 pm. Admission is free.