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Temporary Services
Temporary Services is an art group of three people based in Chicago, Illinois, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (USA), and Copenhagen, Denmark. Temporary Services has created art projects, public events, publications, and exhibitions since 1998. On their web site, they state: We champion public projects that are temporary, ephemeral, or that operate outside of conventional or officially sanctioned categories of public expression. Temporary Services states a desire to not preference any type of activity or object as art, or any audience. They also work against the constructed link between aesthetics and ethics. They view art as activism, and carry on the traditions of Situationist International, situationism. Temporary services became an Artadia awardee in the 2004 Chicago cycle. Prisoners' Inventions A project between the Temporary Services and an incarcerated artist Angelo. Angelo produced a large body of work documenting in detail the inventions created by prisoners in the United ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Group
An art group or artist group, sometimes also an artist collective, describes itself as an open or fixed association of artists to a group with a name. Founders and initiators of artist groups are mostly well-known artists, around whom similarly thinking artists are grouped. Many groups of artists had and still have a major and significant influence on the various epochs of art history. In a broader sense, literary groups and group formations of musicians can also be referred to as artist groups. Description The aim of the artistic initiatives was and still is to get in touch with other artists, to point out avant-garde or newly defined efforts in art in the broadest sense, to break away from traditional, academic approaches altogether, to break new ground and to follow them for example by organizing joint exhibitions. The boundaries between all areas of fine and applied art are fluid. In contrast to the mostly programmatically oriented artist groups, only the costs for the use of co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |