Artist Fiona Connor ran Laurel Doody, an experimental exhibition space, out of her apartment-studio on Cloverdale Avenue from April 2015 to 2016. This interview, in which Thomas Lawson and Connor discuss the Laurel Doody project, was conducted in another Silver Lake apartment in early September 2016.

DIY culture, artist-run initiatives, pop-up galleries, and ‘zines have long been essential but often unhistoricized aspects of the art world. What happens when that independent fringe drifts steadily into the mainstream and informal networked culture influences the establishment?