Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) is a public archive and library located in Chinatown dedicated to contemporary art making. Through its online and in-person submission process, the archive preserves contemporary art ephemera contributed by artists. LACA focuses on art materials related to process: how artists create artworks, organize, and pay the bills. This ephemera allows artists to learn from one another’s experiences and to privilege one another’s needs and desires.
For Made in L.A. 2023, LACA has created an installation called break room, which serves as a public rest area remixed and reshuffled with selections from archival collections. The installation shows a complicated artistic life and the ways in which we dream up possibilities of living differently.