Construction Site - Interactivist, Disjecta, Portland, OR, Saturday, July 26, 2008.

Disjecta will be hosting a screening, Interactivist, comprised of video documents of radical projects by artists and artist groups that use interaction as medium. Featuring work by Wafaa Bilal (Iraq, U.S.), Sarah Febbraro (Canada), Superflex (Denmark), and Temporary Services (U.S.), and curated by Natasha Wheat (U.S.).

Here is a pdf of a critical essay written for the screening: INTERACTIVIST.pdf

Disjecta

Temporary Services books and booklets - Small Publications Book Fair, ThreeWalls, Chicago, July 13, 2008.

Talking With Your Mouth Full: New Language for Socially Engaged Art
A ThreeWalls Symposium
Saturday July 12, and Sunday July 13, 2008

Sunday July 13, 2008
1:00 - 5:00 PM
Small Publications Book Fair with local publications by The Green Lantern Press, InCUBATE, AREA Chicago, Lumpen, and others.

Temporary Services is one of the "others." Marc and Salem will be on hand with many of our publications. Stop by and say hello.

ThreeWalls

Temporary Conversations - One Night Stand, Berlin Biennial, Kunstwerke, Berlin, May 24, 2008.

We will release the first in a brand new series of interview booklets, Temporary Conversations, at the One Night Stand event.

One Night Stand will be a very small scale "artists' book fair"-type event. It will take place in the garden of KW on the evening of May 24th. Like in most regular fairs there will be long tables on which to present the projects and benches to sit on. The bar will be open and the usual Saturday night crowd will mix with those coming specially for the books.

The following people will participate:
Documentation Celine Duval, Normandie, www.doc-cd.net
Temporary Services, Chicago, www.temporaryservices.org
Eva Weinmayr books and printed projects, London, www.evaweinmayr.com
Uqbar Foundation, (Irene Kopelman/Mariana Castillo Deball) Amsterdam, www.uqbarfoundation.org
Rita McBride books, Duesseldorf, www.ritamcbride.net
Kristina Ask, dictionary and printed projects, Copenhagen www.kristinask.net
Salamander Comics, collaborative comicbook series, Beirut, www.samandal.org
Michalis Pichler, printed projects and archive of shredded catalogues, Berlin, www.buypichler.com
Anita di Bianco, Corrections and Clarifications, New York. www.anitadi.net
Bent Books, Istanbul, www.b-a-s.info

Kunst-Werke, Auguststr. 69, 10117 Berlin

Photo: Amy Franceschini

AnyTime, AnyPlace Art Collectives in the 21st Century - Pasadena City College, Pasadena, CA, March 13 – 14, 2008.

Thursday, March 13th
PCC FORUM
7:00-7:45pm Keynote Speaker: Grant Kester (critic and art historian)
7:45-8:15 Desert and Coffee Bar
8:15-9:30pm Guest Speakers: Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin from Temporary Services

Friday, March 14th
R122
9:00-10:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
10:00-10:50am Session One: Futurefarmers
11:00-11:50am Session Two: Temporary Services
12:00-1:00pm Lunch/BBQ in PCC Courtyard
1:00-1:50pm Session Three: Temporary Travel Office
2:30-6:00pm Tour with Temporary Travel Office to former 1984 Los Angeles Olympic sites

AnyTime, AnyPlace Art Collectives in the 21st Century