"Artist > Activist > Leader": an interview with Allison Wyper
photo: Jon Endow
The Center for Cultural Innovation recently published an interview where I talk about my work as part of the Creative Industries Incentive Network (CIIN). I talk about my perspective as an artist coming to Los Angeles from San Francisco, and how the community-centered energy I found here in the experimental performance scene led me to build a career around exchange and collaboration.
“The L.A. arts community is very intersectional. The folks who are creating this particular community […] are very active in community campaigns like anti-gentrification campaigns, LGBTQ work, and feminist communities. It’s such a massive city that you have to have your smaller network to survive. You rely on your community for gigs and to find a place to live. My first impression early on when I moved here was that people were very eager to give me opportunities to perform or to curate shows for each other and bring each other in.”
