Our energetic friend Jean Toche who was part of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) continues to send us mailings several times a week. After a short time away from the P.O. Box, it was startling to discover EIGHT such mailings yesterday. Here is one of the latest from Jean, postmarked June 1st, 2013. Jean turns 81 years old soon and we wish him a happy birthday and many more years of trouble-making in advance!
3 days ago
A selection of books, booklets, posters and other printed matter at Temporary Services: 15 Years of Printed Paper at The Lab for the Division of Labor Festival. Our work will be up until June 28, 2013. So nice to be included alongside lots of great musical performances!
3 days ago
A selection of posters and other printed matter at Temporary Services: 15 Years of Printed Paper at The Lab for the Division of Labor Festival. Our books, booklets and posters will be up until June 28, 2013.
San Francisco folks take their reading seriously! Great opening for Temporary Services: 15 Years of Printed Paper at The Lab for the Division of Labor Festival last night. Come see the show - our books, booklets and posters will be up until June 28, 2013.
1 week ago
A sample page from one of our favorite books: The Contemporary Picturesque by Nils Norman. This book is very hard to find and we were just able to restock some fresh new copies.
In helpfully captioned photos from London, New York, and other cities, this book presents barricades, guard-rails, and 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.
2 weeks ago
This is so rad. Been scheming a similar idea for Lawrence, KS and KCMO so it’s way cool to see it in action! The brainstorming continues …
Temporary Services / Half Letter Press publications are available through this great project!
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http://www.visibleproject.org/assets/medias/pdf/layout-temporary-services-17.3.pdf
“We have found our publications are perfect vehicles for insisting on other narratives and subject matter that the dominant conversations neglect…” - Temporary Services, from the Visible Workbook series
If you are in San Francisco next week, get on over to The Lab and hang with our publications! Marc from Temporary Services will be at the opening. Stop on by and say hi! We’ll have a bunch of our publications for sale too.
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Back in stock! Three great Dwelling Portably compendiums and Make Your Place. These and other excellent books from Microcosm here.
3 weeks ago
Our exhibition of our recent project Records as Portable Exhibitions and Interactive, Participatory Objects at Texas State University is long over. But we have plenty of the pretty booklets we made and they are very cheap.
4 weeks ago
Temporary Services is super excited to be participating in the Division of Labor Festival at The Lab in San Francisco in June. We’ll be showing a big survey of our publications and Marc from the group will be in town for the opening. Hope you can come on out!
via divisionoflaborfestival
1 month ago
We are heartbroken to learn of the death of Stephanie Ognar. Stephanie was one of the very first artists we worked with, back when Temporary Services maintained a storefront space at 2890 N. Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. In April and May of 1999, we presented 12 of Stephanie’s flip books. These smart and charming handmade books, among the most interesting and effective uses of the flip book format we have seen, each focused on a single subtle gesture. Shown is the book Wink. Other books in the series included everyday gestures like taking a bath, taking off a coat, smoking, spitting, glancing, and staring.
Ognar’s work was also included in The Library Project that we organized in 2001. Though that was our last collaboration with Stephanie, she remained a friend of the group and it was always a pleasure to see or hear from her. More of Stephanie’s work can be found at her website. She was also active on Flickr and Goodreads.
Stephanie Ognar was a smart, gentle and thoughtful artist. She was a quiet presence in the world but her death is a huge loss to anyone that knew her. She will be sadly missed.
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Many mailed statements by Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) have been in response to recent gun violence in the U.S. Here is a text he sent us in January of 2013.
A digital print of a statement from Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) that he mailed to us in February 2013. Jean is over 80 years old now and has been on a rampage, mailing us declarations and endorsements like this multiple times a week!
A recent hand-written note from our friend Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG). Jean has been sending us notes like this as often as two or three times a week!
