Temporary Services Publications – The Graphic Unconscious, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA, January 29 - April 11, 2010
For Philagrafika 2010 Temporary Services has been commissioned to produce the sixth in their series of booklets Temporary Conversations. Each issue has focused on an interview with a provocative cultural figure, including Tim Kerr (of the punk band The Big Boys), Kawabata Makoto (of the psychedelic band Acid Mothers Temple) and Jean Toche (of the Guerilla Art Action Group) and Suzann Gage, an artist turned nurse, who used her skills as an illustrator to help revolutionize health care for women. There will also be a large collection of Temporary Services publications for visitors to read.
Temporary Conversations booklet with Peggy Diggs.
We are also reprinting Public Phenomena: Informal Modifications of Public Space (2005). Free copies of this booklet and the interview with Peggy Diggs will be available at The Print Center.
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics – Discussions, exhibitions, potluck dinners, workshops, events, at multiple venues around the U.S. and in Puerto Rico
Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Politics – produced by Temporary Services, an independent, Chicago-based collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer – is a newspaper and website 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 being distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico
The independently published, 40-page paper features the writings of Julia Bryan-Wilson, author of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era (2009) and Work Ethic (2003); Holland Cotter, New York Times Art Critic and 2009 Pulitzer Prize winner for criticism; Kristen Cox, Tim Kerr and Nance Klehm, editors for The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; Harrell Fletcher, visual artist; Futurefarmers, a collective design studio that supports art projects, artists in residencies and research interests; Robin Hewlett, artist/activist; Justseeds: Visual Resistance Artists' Cooperative; Nicolas Lampert, interdisciplinary artist; Lize Mogel, interdisciplinary artist ; Michael Rakowitz, creator of the award-winning project paraSITE; and Dan S. Wang, as well as others.
Discusions and/or exhibitions occurring at these places:
16 Beaver, NY, December 20, 2009
ABC NO RIO, New York, NY, TBA
basekamp, Philadelphia, PA, February/March 2010
Bureau of Open Culture, Colombus, OH, November 18 - December 18, 2009
Commons Gallery, University of Hawaii, Manoa, March 22 - April 2, 2010
CS13 Gallery, Cincinnatti, OH, March 2010
DAAC, Grand Rapids, MI, February 5, 2010
Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA
DOMY Books, organized by Kate Watson, Claire Ruud, and Circulatory System, Austin, TX, January 22, 2010
Gallery 400, Chicago, January 27 - March 6, 2010, Public Discussion on January 30th, 6-8 PM
Intermedia Porch Gallery & Public Space One, Iowa City, IA, January 19-29, 2010
McLean County Art Center, organized by Brian Collier and Alison Hatcher, Bloomington, IL, January 15 - February 20, 2010
Mediamatic, organized by Caroline Woolard, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 14 - December 13, 2009
Miller Gallery, Carnegie Melon Univeristy, Pittsburgh, PA, February 2010
Sight School, Berkeley, CA, December 16, 2009
Skydive, Houston, TX, January 23 - February 27, 2010
SPACES, Cleveland, OH, November 20, 2009 - January 15, 2010 [The paper was funded by and launched from SPACES.]
Trade School, Brooklyn, NY, February 25, 2010, 6-9 PM
Vanagallery, Riverside, CA, December 9, 2009
W&N, San Juan, Puerto Rico, TBA
More locations and events to be announced.
Web site for the project: www.artandwork.us
Supermax Subscriptions – Ongoing project, started March 2008.
Supermax Subscriptions seeks to connect the surplus of well-traveled citizens to a population that never goes anywhere: prisoners in American supermax prisons.
As most of you know, frequent flyer miles often expire before it is possible to save enough of them for a free airline ticket, seating upgrade, or other costly prize. Supermax Subscriptions asks people with these surplus miles to exchange small quantities of unused miles for magazine subscriptions to supermax prisoners. For as few as 300 miles, you can give the gift of a yearly magazine subscription to a prisoner with little or no reading material.
The first goal of Supermax Subscriptions is to provide every prisoner in Tamms C-MAX supermax prison with at least one magazine subscription. Men in Tamms are in their cells 23-24 hours a day in permanent solitary confinement. The men have been there for years on end—many for ten years. They have no communal activity, no phone calls, no programs, no education, no work, no librarian, and virtually no reading (mostly children’s books). A magazine subscription is one way to give these men your support. Your gift will not be taken for granted.
In conjunction with the Tamms Year Ten campaign, we are kicking-off the Supermax Subscriptions project on the day of the ten-year anniversary of the opening of Tamms supermax prison. Together, we will sign letters to each man in Tamms C-MAX, asking them to pick their magazine preferences. Please join us—each handwritten signature will show them that someone on the outside knows and cares about their situation.
This project is a collaborative effort by Tamms Poetry Committee, Sarah Ross, Temporary Services, and you!
First
Event!
WHERE: Mess Hall, 6932 N. Glenwood Ave, Chicago 60626
WHAT: Potluck & letter-signing with information & entertainment.
WHEN: March 8, 2008, 6pm-8:30pm.
CONTACT US: supermax [at] temporaryservice [dot] org
FURTHER INFORMATION: www.YearTen.org
Photos
and details from the mailing event at Mess Hall: here
Coming Soon: Participating prisoners! Watch this page
to learn which Tamms prisoners will participate and how to send them
gift subscriptions.
Airlines: Check these airlines to sign up for a mileage awards plan, check your travel mile balance and to find out how to redeem miles for magazine subscriptions: American Airlines, Delta, other airlines may apply.You are also welcome to purchase magazines if you don't have any frequent flier miles.
Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights (download a copy in PDF form)