How Lantern House Is Challenging the One-Night Promoter Model

A promoter can book an artist, sell the date, run the room, post the photographs, and close the accounts. Once the lights come up, though, the developing artist may leave with little that can support the next booking. Photographs and phone clips document the date, yet most of its attention disappears within days. Lantern House founder and curator Weiyi Xia has spent the past few years considering how a relationship established by programming an artist might continue after the date.
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