The publication marked the twentieth anniversary of the Alternative Traditions in the Contemporary Arts (ATCA) project and accompanied four exhibitions of works drawn from the ATCA collection: Alice Hutchins: Arenas for Happenings, Artfacts of the Eternal Network, Ken Friedman: Art[net]worker Extra-Ordinaire, and Latin American Realities/International Solutions. Funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.

“This publication is offered in opposition to current attempts to revise our cultural canons within the boundaries imposed by unitary, universalist historiographic models.”

- The Pew Center for Arts and Heritage