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t an international presence and get out of India’s shadow. This phenomenon also rubs off on artists and although part of the same artist run organizational framework i.e. (Khoj International Artist’s Association) artist run initiatives in these countries actively try and create separate identities. Further to this argument we believe that it will be worthwhile to look at where the fine line between mainstream and peripheral artist run initiatives exist and how she could classify such orgatisations?

The researcher then continues on to describe her main research interest which lies in her investigating the political potentials inherent in ‘artist-run-initiatives’. She points out that these initiatives give the artists a new way of emancipation in relation to art institutions. However, the general idea behind the creation of such artist run initiatives has also been the change in this relational nature between artist and art institutions and thus how a question of a new way arises is unclear to this reader. Furthermore, it is also not clear if, according to the researcher, such initiatives are free of political ideologies, what political potentials the researcher wants to investigate? If, it is do with the politics of cultural production then a clarification along with an example of how she wishes to do it would have been appropriate.

The researcher then goes on to provide us with the example of La Panaderia which as an artist run initiative had thoroughly influenced the Mexican contemporary art scene and had been an influence on other such initiatives across Latin America providing them with a model to work with. Here she raises the issue previously mentioned of artist run initiatives becoming institutionalized. Given the fact that all human beings have a political consciousness which leads to the development of their own political inclination, in collectives such as these, although the politics can be superficially the same, they can differ at any time giving rise to factionalism and division in group ethos. Further to this, there are several questions that arise while we take a look into the presentation. How many artist run initiatives are being looked into? Does looking into La Panaderia or two three other initiatives suffice for the whole of Latin America? Does the varied political conditions of the different countries in Latin America makes the artist run initiatives different?

On the whole, this is a very interesting topic, and also an area which has been not much researched upon, thus holding potential for plenty of original work. Although there could be several improvements made in the way the topic is being looked at by the researcher, she does very well to identify and investigate an important topic which has not been looked into in this manner. Her thoughts are well deliberated and she has planned her course of research well given a dearth of resource materials in this subject. In conclusion, I would like to mention that the researcher deserves credit for embarking on this hitherto untrodden path and I hope that she is successful in reaching her goal.