Group work By Temporary Services
dal 29/3/2007 al 2/5/2007
Segnalato da
29/3/2007
Group work By Temporary Services
Printed Matter Inc., New York
Group work By Temporary Services. The artist's collective presents an installation consisting of words and symbols for human groupings, as well as hundreds of photos of social groupings appropriated from books and magazines.
Group work By Temporary Services
Printed Matter Inc. is happy to announce the opening of the exhibition
Group Work, together with the launch of a publication by the same name
by the Chicago-based artists' collective Temporary Services. Please
join us on Friday, March 30 from 5:00 to 7:00 PM for a reception
celebrating this exhibition and publication. Printed Matter is located
at 195 Tenth Avenue at 22nd Street.
Temporary Services presents their
Aesthetic Analysis of Human Groupings, an installation consisting of
words and symbols for human groupings, as well as hundreds of photos of
social groupings appropriated from books and magazines, displayed
throughout the exhibition space. Five booklet 'pods' showcase eleven of
the collective's publications. In addition, the group has chosen books
by groups from Printed Matter's inventory as an extension of the
exhibition. A window installation completes the project: the
collective's vast array of publications dangles from strings for public
perusal.
In conjunction with the exhibition, Printed Matter will launch
Group Work, the latest book in Printed Matter's Emerging Artist
Publication Series. Based on a pamphlet published by Temporary Services
in 2002 titled Group Work: A Compilation of Quotes About Collaboration
from a Variety of Sources and Practices, this publication provides a
multitude of perspectives on the theme of Group Work by practitioners
of artistic group practice from 1960s to the present. The publication
presents interviews with Canadian collective General Idea; Chicago
collective Haha; the dutch punk band The Ex; the Vienna-based
WochenKlausur; Croatian artist group What, How & for Whom (WHW);
Funkadelic album designer Pedro Bell; and Political Art
Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D); along with essays on The Abortion
Counseling Service of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (better
known as Jane) and the anarchist Guerilla street theater group The
Diggers. A list of words used to describe group practices and a working
list of hundreds of collectives from the last four decades rounds out
the publication.
Temporary Services is a Chicago based collective made
up of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, and Marc Fischer. Together they
draw on varied backgrounds and interests to produce creative
exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. Since their inception
they have produced over 70 publications and participated in as many
exhibitions. Printed Matter is pleased to be the publisher of Group
Work, 112 pages with 34 black and white images. The book retails for
$19.95, and is available at Printed Matter's storefront at 195 Tenth
Printed Matter, Inc. is an
independent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1976 by
artists and art workers with the mission to foster the appreciation,
dissemination, and understanding of artists' books and other artists'
publications.
Printed Matter, Inc. has received support, in part,
through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York
State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural
Affairs, Altria Group Inc, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation,
The Cowles Charitable Trust, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, The
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, The Gesso Foundation, The Horace W.
Goldsmith Foundation, the Schoenstadt Family Foundation, The Roy and
Niuta Titus Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts,
and individuals worldwide.
Friday, March 30, 2007 5 to 7 PM
Printed Matter Inc.
535 West 22nd Street - New York
Free admission