Category: Events
ART WORK
A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics
Through Feb. 28, 2010
Newspaper + Website Contributors:
Temporary Services, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Lize Mogel, Holland Cotter, Anonymous, Jen Abrams, Louise Ma, Carl Tashian, Rich Watts, Caroline Woolard, Nicolas Lampert, Robin Hewlett, Gregory Sholette, Harrell Fletcher, Scott Berzofsky + John Duda for The City From Below Organizers, InCUBATE, Linda Frye Burnham, Chris Kennedy, Tim Kerr, Nato Thompson, FEAST, Dan S. Wang, Nance Klehm, ILSSA Co-Operators, Cooley Windsor and Futurefarmers, Brian Holmes, Adam Trowbridge + Jessica Westbrook, Nick Tobier, Lolita Hernandez, Stacy Malasky, Nate Mullen, Aaron Timlin, W.A.G.E., Dylan A.T. Miner, Anthony Elms, Carolina Caycedo, Guerrilla Art Action Group, 16 Beaver Group, Damon Rich, W&N, Teaching Artist Union, Harold Jefferies, Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke for the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Editorial Collective
For the month of February the Miller Gallery displays and distributes Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics, a free newspaper that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation, and artistic property.
Art Work was produced by Temporary Services, a Chicago-based group composed of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Temporary Services produces exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. “Our name directly reflects the desire to provide art as a service to others. It is a way for us to pay attention to the social context in which art is produced and received.”
“With the economic downturn, there is less money available to almost everyone. How can artists survive, and find money for their work? Do we have a right to? What kinds of projects can emerge from this situation, and how can they sustain themselves?
Using the Temporary Services’ newspaper “Art Work” as a starting point, we’ll discuss these questions and more.
Stop by ABC No Rio to get a paper beforehand, or just come to the discussion. The paper can also be read and downloaded at http://www.artandwork.us/”
Thursday, February 18th, 2010, 7:30-9, at ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington, New York, NY.
Organized by Ian Dolton-Thornton.
Copies of the newspaper will be available at the is event.
Many thanks to Rebecca Uchill for making this happen!
You’re invited to
Money! Money! Money!
a sprout spaghetti dinner
Sprout spaghetti dinners is a dinner theater series seeking to bring people from the Somerville and Cambridge communities together around good food, good music, and good performance. Each month, we’ll find an eclectic group of performers to explore the month’s theme through different lenses. In the tradition of dinners hosted by NYC-based theater company Great Small Works, we want to cast new light on common ideas from artistic, musical, and scientific perspectives. You can
find information about past dinners at our blog.
The theme for this month’s dinner is Money! Money! Money! It will be happening just outside of Davis Square at sprout (339R Summer St.) on Wednesday February 17 with dinner at 7:30pm and performances beginning at 8. $10 suggested donation. The spaghetti will be prepared by Food not Bombs, and our performers will include ::
- Local musicians Jon Hersh and Kathy Fletcher playing a set of old-time tunes on banjo, fiddle, and voice.
- Frank Ackerman, a research scientist at Tufts, speaks about the economics of global climate change, addressing the question, “Does it make economic sense for us to try to fight global warming?”
- Shauna Gordon-McKeon, a researcher in the field of moral psychology, will perform and discuss experiments in social psychology and behavioral economics looking at how money affects our decision-making processes.
- Liz Hall and Casey Engels of Artists in Context will present The Fundred Dollar Bill Project, a nation-wide drawing project started by artist Mel Chin. Audience members will contribute to the project by designing their own “fundred” dollar bills to help raise money and awareness to begin clean-up efforts of lead-contaminated soil in New Orleans.
- Community members will also share personal monologues responding to the prompt “Literally, money represents gold or silver; socially, it is a status symbol; personally, it might mean everything from success to security to selling-out. What has money meant for you?”
Please send any questions to spaghetti@thesprouts.org or call
617.575.9219.
339R Summer St.
Davis Square
Somerville, MA 02144
The McLean County Arts Center is hosting a discussion around the topics in ART WORK on Saturday, Februrary 20th at 2 PM.
Many thanks to Alison Hatcher and Brian Collier for making this happen!
McLean County Arts Center
601 N. East Street, Bloomington IL
Tel. 309.829.0011
Marc Fischer will be in Grand Rapids, Michigan, for Art Work related discussions and an exhibition. If you are in town, stop by and say hello, join the conversation, start organizing in your community.
Join us in Chicago for an exhibition featuring Art Work and our friends The Free Store. Temporary Services has organized the exhibition and coordinated a bunch of related events, all to take place at Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
We hope to see you for the opening reception on Wednesday, January 27, 2010, as well as for the events listed below.
On Saturday, January 30, members of Temporary Services will introduce the project and initiate a discussion about art, labor, and economics from 6:00-8:00 pm.
LOCATION AND HOURS
Gallery 400 at University of Illinois at Chicago
400 S. Peoria St., Chicago
January 26 – March 6, 2010
Hours: Tuesday – Friday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm, Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm.
Thursdays open until 8:00 pm for The Free Store.
EVENTS AT GALLERY 400
• Opening reception: Wednesday, January 27, 5:00 – 8:00 pm
• Art Work introduction & discussion with Temporary Services: Saturday, January 30, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Please join us for a public discussion. Temporary Services will give a short introduction to the newspaper, its distribution and the events and discussions happening around the U.S. and Puerto Rico. The discussion will focus on how artists, art students, and arts professionals are coping with the miserable economic cli- mate we are living through and how we can build differ- ent, more ethical arts infra- structures for the future. DOWNLOAD FLIER
• The Free Store event: workers from the Greenhouses of Hope at Chicago’s Pacific Garden Mission talk: Saturday, February 6, 2:00 -5:00 pm
• Organize! What the Artists’ Union & The American Artists’ Congress Can Teach Us Today, talk by Nicolas Lampert: Monday, February 15, 6:00 – 8:00 pm. Nicolas Lampert (Justseeds’ Artists Cooperative) will provide an overview of the Artists’ Union and the American Art- ists’ Congress, two of the leading voices for radical artists in the 1930s that responded to the Great Depression and the rise of fascism with collective action and aligning themselves with working class movements. The talk will segue to an open discussion about how artists today are addressing the present-day economic crisis. DOWNLOAD FLIER
• FAIR: two-day local maker and publisher fair, Friday, February 26 and Saturday, February 27. Noon – 6:00 pm both days
• Money drawing event with Harold Jefferies and screening of “You’re Gonna Miss Me” documentary, Friday, March 5, 2:00 – 6:00 pm (screening at 4:00 pm). Harold Jefferies is an artist working at the Little City Foundation art studios, outside Chicago, a program for artists with developmental disabilities. He has been making his own money for years. Harold will be drawing money and making exchanges with visitors. “You’re Gonna Miss Me” is a documentary about rock n roll pioneer Roky Erickson, whose band the 13th Floor Elevators coined the term “psychedelic rock” in the 60s. This film tells the story of Erikson’s family and their struggle to care for Roky, who suffers from schizophrenia. DOWNLOAD FLIER
• Reading Room: Half Letter Press presents Brian Holmes discussing his work: Saturday, March 6, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
• Last Day: The Free Store Blowout with Surprises!!: Saturday, March 6, 12:00 -8:00 pm
At Conduit Gallery with Baltimore-based artist Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum and New York-based artist Annabel Daou. Photo: Carolyn Sorter
We sent Carolyn Sorter, a writer and critic in Dallas, a couple of stacks of papers. She put some copies up at Conduit Gallery there and distributed the paper.
Tear-Off sheet made by Carolyn Sorter
Intermedia’s Porch Gallery is proud to be one of a network of distribution centers for the newspaper ART WORK by the art collective Temporary Services. ART WORK is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
Domy Books, in association with Temporary Services,
is pleased to present
Art Work
A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Politics
Friday, January 22, 2009 at Domy Books, Austin
913 E Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX 78702
8-10pm, FREE ADMISSION
Followed by events in Houston on Saturday and Sunday at SKYDIVE
Event organized by Kate Watson, in conjunction with Claire Ruud and Circulatory System
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On January 22, Domy Books, Austin will host 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. Art Work is a newspaper and website that will use Domy as Austin’s distribution hub. It 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 will be distributed throughout the United States and Puerto Rico.
The independently published, 40-page paper (printed at The Plain Dealer press) 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; Christina Ulke, Marc Herbst, and Robby Herbst, editors for The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest; Harrell Fletcher, visual artist, and many more.
Austin’s Domy Books will collaborate with Houston’s SKYDIVE to present a special series of weekend-long programming as a means of creating new conversation between members of both artist communities. The events will kick off on Friday evening in Austin, with an exhibition of photographs of local artists and a conversation with members of Temporary Services about labor and artistic practice. The weekend will continue on Saturday in Houston with a Free School session and dialogue about resource sharing between these two vibrant cities.
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Art Work is a newspaper that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property.
The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.
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LINKS
Art Work: http://www.artandwork.us/
Temporary Services: http://www.temporaryservices.org/
Skydive: http://www.theskydive.org/
Joseph del Pesco started an audio book version of the newspaper. We were really happy to be surprised by this self-initiated endeavor.
Recent Articles
- ART WORK at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery, Feb. 1-28
- ABC No Rio, NY, Discussion, February 18th
- Money! Money! Money!, February 12th, Sprout Spaghetti Dinners
- Art Work Discussion, MCAC, Bloomington/Normal, IL
- Art Work in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Art Work at Gallery 400, Chicago
- Art Work at Conduit Gallery, Dallas
- Intermedia Porch Gallery & Public Space One, Iowa City
- Personal Economy #16
- Events in Austin (Jan. 22) and Houston (Jan. 23 & 24)
Personal Economy #16
I’m an artist and a curator. I work at a small museum in the desert of Southern California. I like my job and I get to put together cool art exhibits and events, but I also yearn to operate my own art space. I’m young, I have to work, I have debt from college, and I don’t have money to move wherever I want…
About
Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.
Distribution
Art Work is being distributed throughout the 50 United States and Puerto Rico (among other locations). To find a hard copy of Art Work near you, please read on.
Major support for SPACES is provided by The Cleveland Foundation; Cuyahoga Arts and Culture; The George Gund Foundation; Donna and Stewart Kohl; Kulas Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; National Endowment for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; and the Ohio Arts Council.
Art Work is partly funded by Lauren Rich Fine & Gary Giller and the John P. Murphy Foundation.