[Basekamp Events] Art Work - Jun 29 2010

[scott at basekamp.com]

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[1] June 29, 2010 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm EST
Hi Everyone,

This Tuesday is another event in a year-long series of weekly conversations  
and exhibits in 2010 shedding light on examples of Plausible Artworlds.

This week we’ll be talking with Salem Collo-Julin, one of the founders of  
Art Work.

http://www.artandwork.us/

Artwork is “a national conversation about art, labor, and economics” —  
a conversation that takes the form of a website and a free, 40-page newspaper  
comprised of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics,  
and others on the topic of working within toady’s depressed economies and  
how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. Freely  
downloadable, the newspaper “asks us all to consider how to use this moment  
to do several things: to work for better compensation, to get opportunities  
to make art in diverse and challenging settings, and to guide art attitudes  
and institutions, on all levels, in more resilient directions. It is also an  
examination of the power that commercial practices continue to wield and the  
adverse effects this has had on artists, education, and our collective  
creative capacity.”

Art Work was conceived and produced by Temporary Services, an Illinois-based  
group formed in 1998, which, over the years has produced a wide variety of  
exhibitions, events, projects, and publications.

http://www.temporaryservices.org/

Temporary Services, along with the help of SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, have  
distributed over 10,000 copies of Art Work internationally since its initial  
publication in November 2009. Recipients of these free copies have been  
encouraged to create their own programming using the themes in Art Work as a  
starting point. Many of the events, talks, and exhibitions that have resulted  
are available to view at http://www.artandwork.us/category/events/

As well as looking closely at the Art Work project and the work of Temporary  
Services that produced it, tonight’s conversation may be a good occasion to  
touch on a phenomenon that appears recurrent amongst “plausible  
artworlds” — that is, their propensity to engender or fructify other  
artworlds. This would seem to raise a series of further questions: What are  
plausible artworlds’ mode of reproduction? What kind of “family  
resemblance” can be observed? Is there a lineal — or even patrilineal or  
matrilineal — relationship between Temporary Services and Art Work, amongst  
other examples? Or is the relationship not more “avuncular” —  
introducing a shift, like the knight’s move in chess — meaning that Art  
Work might better be seen as Temporary Services’s nephew?

See you all then!

Join us every Tuesday night – in person, or on Skype, skypename:  
‘basekamp’
If you come to the potluck chat in person, be sure to bring a dish :)
Basekamp space: 723 Chestnut St, 2nd floor, Philadelphia usa

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this week’s Potluck Chat:

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/Plausible Artworlds is a project organized by Basekamp and Stephen Wright,  
and has been funded by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the  
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative./


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