Temporary Services is Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Based in Illinois, the collective Temporary Services has existed with changing members and structures since 1998. Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications without attention to separate art practice from other creative production; it obscures existing delineations of disciplines and systems of cultural production.
Temporary Services reflects the desire to provide art as a service to others and to consider closely the social contexts in which art is produced. Temporary Services is interested in the way art is experienced in everyday life. The collective is interested in transforming art from a privileged, rarefied experience to something more directly related to how we live our lives on a daily basis. This intent includes removing the influence of select individuals who determine how art is seen and interrupted and expanding the sites traditionally sanctioned for experience of art.
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics is an independently published, 32-page newspaper produced by Temporary Services in collaboration with the non-profit arts organization SPACES in Cleveland, Ohio. Art Work is a newspaper that consists of writings from artists, activists and academics on the topic of working amidst depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed free throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. The Bureau for Open Culture’s Agency for Small Claims is proud to contribute to the distribution via a pdf available here and through December 18, 2009 copies available on the campus of Columbus College of Art & Design.
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