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Free for all. Art as a service to others 

Temporary Services · 2013
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Pedagogy & Education Social Justice
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Temporary Services

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We have invited the group Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer; shortlisted with their project Printed City for the first Visible award), to answer an interview in which we go through their personal history; that they very much based around the idea that publishing can be one of the most accessible and democratic tools to spread empowering artistic projects and their outcomes. Started in 1998 with the opening of an experimental exhibition space in Chicago, in a working-class neighborhood, the group has been operating on an international scale for a long time now, and maintaining publishing at the core of their activities to “provide art as a service to others; a way to pay attention to the social context in which art is produced and received.

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Pedagogy & Education Social Justice
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Temporary Services

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Temporary Services is Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer. They started working together in Chicago in 1998 as a larger group. In 2008, they started Half Letter Press, a publishing imprint and online store. They are currently based in Chicago and Fort Wayne (IN) and produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications.

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