TEMPORARY SERVICES

THERE GOES THE NEIGHBOURHOOD

Temporary Services is in participating in There Goes The Neighbourhood, an
exhibition, residency, and book organized by the artist duo You Are Here (Keg
de Souza and Zanny Begg).

You Are Here writes: “There Goes the Neighbourhood is an exhibition,
residency, discussion and publishing project for May 2009. The central element
of this project will be an exploration of the politics of urban space. It will
explore the complex life of cities and how the phenomenon of gentrification is
altering the relationship between democracy and demography around the world.”


Participating in this exhibition has taken us to Sydney, Australia, where we
are conducting a Public Sculpture Opinion Poll to gain insight and input about
Bower, a sculpture installed in a public square in the contested Sydney
neighborhood of Redfern.

We have put up clipboards in several public spots in the blocks surrounding
the sculpture. Flyers are attached to the clipboards that ask “What is your
opinion of this sculpture? Why do you think it was placed in this
neighbourhood?”

Passers-by are encouraged to either write their response directly onto the
flyers or e-mail Temporary Services at publicpoll@temporaryservices.org with
their answers. All of the replies we receive will be posted for people to see
in the exhibition space.

We are also maintaining a special series of web pages for this project at
http://www.temporaryservices.org/publicpoll/.
Replies will be displayed there as well as background information about Redfern
and the sculpture that we are investigating.

There Goes The Neighbourhood will be on view at Performance Space
at the Carriage Works at 245 Wilson St, Redfern, Sydney, from Friday, May 22
through June 27, 2009.

There is also a book that accompanies this exhibition! The There Goes The
Neighbourhood book, with contributions from Temporary Services is here.
The book will soon be available through the Half Letter Press store.

Temporary Services would like interested parties to come meet them and share
opinions about Bower during their Artist Talk on Saturday, May 30, 2009
at 4:00 p.m. at Performance Space.

More information about the sculpture, Redfern, and our project can be found here.

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HALF LETTER PRESS ITEMS

Here’s some items now available at Half Letter Press. Visit
http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/ and support radical creative practice.

With Love From Haha: Essays And Notes On A Collective Practice
Edited by Wendy Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof



This book is the last collaboration for the twenty-year-old group Haha (Wendy
Jacob, Laurie Palmer, and John Ploof). Haha developed an art practice that
pushed at many boundaries of what could be considered art, how it is made, and
who has access to it.

The Contemporary Picturesque
By Nils Norman



In helpfully captioned photos from London, New York, and other cities, this
book presents barricades, guard-rails, outdoor seating designed for minimal
comfort, anti-sitting and climbing devices, and myriad other official models
for controlling public behavior. From the other side of the fence, it also
documents protest encampments in trees, community gardens and several actions
that illegally modified street surfaces.


Temporary Conversations Collection



This is a special offer of all four of Temporary Services’ Temporary
Conversations interview series. Read our interviews with and writing about
Jean Toche and the Guerrilla Art Action Group, Tim Kerr (Big Boys), The Dicks, and
Kawabata Makato (Acid Mothers Temple).

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edit -- these events will be rescheduled for future dates. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Happy Spring!

Temporary Services is pleased to announce some upcoming events in the Chicago area, as well as some new items at our Half Letter Press store.
This year we were honored to be chosen as the “group-in-residence” in the Art Theory and Practice department at Northwestern University. We have been working on an ongoing project involving mobile structures, and we’d like to invite you to see our progress and our studio.


For a campus map, check out:
http://www.northwestern.edu/visiting/index.html



Join us for a casual presentation on the work we have been doing during our residency. We will discuss mobile exhibition strategies that we have used in the past and our new work in progress titled "Social Mobility".

Why might artists want to work outside of galleries? What are some of the benefits of having a practice that you can take on the road, set up outdoors, or situate outside of the usual art exhibition channels?

A library that we have been assembling on imaginative approaches to creative and everyday problem solving, building structures, visionary approaches to small architecture, and exhibitions on wheels, will also be on view.


Chicagoland residents, hope to see you there!

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New at Half Letter Press: http://www.halfletterpress.com/store

Queer Zines, edited by Philip Aarons & AA Bronson
$25



Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play. In a riotous assemblage of more than 200 pages, we find comprehensive bibliographies and sinful synopses for more than 120 zines by Alex Gartenfeld, excerpted illustrations and writings by zine makers, reprints of important articles in and about queer zines, a directory of important zine archives, and a list of zine outlets around the world. It also includes a 1980 interview with Boyd McDonald by Vince Aletti, Bimbox's pop-up genitalia (alas, not popping up here), Adam Block's early writings on zines from the Advocate, a "Where are They Now?" section that charts the careers of various queer zine pioneers, and excerpted interviews with GB Jones, Vaginal Davis, and Bruce LaBruce.

http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=4&products_id=76



Strip-Ts by Let’s Re-Make (available in Unisex M and L)
$15



Strip-Ts are made by Let's Re-Make (Bonnie Fortune & Brett Bloom). The duo is interested in finding ways to repurpose the piles of unworn and unloved clothing out there. Strip-Ts starts with a concern for the tremendous over production and consumption of clothing in the world. There is enough clothing in circulation now to clothe everyone without ever having to make anything new for many years. Right now thrift stores are clogged with t-shirts no one wants emblazoned with logos that state: “The Jones Family Fiesta ’93”, “Marc’s Bar Mitzvah ’84”, “Hooter’s Corporate Retreat and Tan-Off”, “It Stays in Cabo - Spring Break!!! “I’m with Stupid” (Did we really need a shirt to commemorate that?!). Let's Re-Make has stripped these old tees and made them new with scribbles. Buy one and do your part to purge from the collective memory “Crystal’s Bachelorette Party in ’03.” Or don’t buy one, but remember you CAN compost cotton, so bury that tee in your garden and get it out of our sight.

http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=16


Half Letter Press will be publishing work by Melinda Fries and Mary Patten in the future. Your purchases at our store help to make this happen!

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Thank you for your continued support!

Temporary Services / Half Letter Press
(Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin, Marc Fischer)

Temporary Services
www.temporaryservices.org
servers@temporaryservices.org
P.O. Box 121012
Chicago, IL 60612

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Half Letter Press
www.halfletterpress.com
publishers@halfletterpress.com
P.O. Box 12588
Chicago, IL 60612

Here's the myspace bulletin that I read from "little gary floyd" (!):

Dear Dick Friends,
The Dicks are up for the AUSTIN MUSIC HALL OF FAME!!
I know most of you do not live in Austin ,or even Texas. It doesn't matter. It will take a few seconds for you to vote....its done on line with the big music mag in Austin..THE AUSTIN CHRONICAL---
its a ballot
you can scroll to the bottom of the page
check the Dicks over

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it would mean a lot to the dicks---
pleasedo this for us.....
go to:

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love
little gary floyd

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Go here to vote: http://www.austinchronicle.com/feedback/musicpoll/08/

Need a primer on the Dicks? Get our booklet! Go here: http://www.halfletterpress.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2&products_id=49

Thanks!!

10 Years of Temporary Services – Co-Prosperity Sphere, Chicago, December 5, 2008, 7:30 PM - 12 AM.

A party for Temporary Services' 10th anniversary and the release of our book Public Phenomena

All Ages! Free Food! TS Ephemera & Slideshow! Surprises! Items for sale from Half Letter Press!

$5.00 admission ($15.00 gets you a copy of Public Phenomena)

Performances by:
The Velcro Lewis Group
Dead Druglords
AZ & Snebtor

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219 S. Morgan St, Chicago

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