Poster for Jane Arden’s play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, 1969, at the Arts Laboratory, London

Poster for Jane Arden’s play Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, 1969, at the Arts Laboratory, London.

A PDF of Julian’s essay “What is a Laboratory?” — produced on the occasion of the Wexner Center for the Arts’ 2022 exhibition “To Begin, Again: A Prehistory of the Wex, 1968–89,” curated by Daniel Marcus — can be downloaded here.

It offers a compact genealogy of the “arts laboratory” in the 20th century in the USA and UK.