This is the story of two short-lived artist-run spaces that are associated with some of the most innovative developments in the arts in Britain in the late 1960s. The Drury Lane Arts Lab (1967-69) was home to the first UK screenings of Andy Warhol''s twin-screen 3 hour film Chelsea Girls, challenging exhibitions (John and Yoko / John Latham / Takis / Roelof Louw), poetry and music (first UK performance of Erik Satie''s 24-hour Vexations) and fringe theatre (People Show / Freehold / Jane Arden''s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven / Will Spoor Mime Theatre). The Robert Street ''New Arts Lab'' (1969-71) housed Britain''s first video workshop TVX, the London Filmmakers Co-op''s first workshop and a 5-days-a-week cinema devoted to showing new work by moving-image artists (David Larcher / Malcolm Le Grice / Sally Potter / Carolee Schneemann / Peter Gidal). It staged J G Ballard''s infamous Crashed Cars exhibition and John & Dianne Lifton''s pioneering computer-aided
