TEMPORARY SERVICES

202 S. State Street, Suite 1124

Chicago, IL 60603

www.megsinet.net/~nobudget/temp_serv.html

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

February 5, 2000

MEDIA CONTACT: Marc Fischer

806 N. Maplewood 3rd Fl. Chicago, IL 60622

(773) 395-4587

marcf@corecomm.net

Free For All

Saturday February 5, 2000

1:00 - 5:00 PM

ONE DAY ONLY!

Giving away over 8,000 items by more than 50 artists and organizations

This Event Will Be Held Off-Site In An Un-Marked Store-Front

On The SW Corner of Augusta & Washtenaw

(Washtenaw is approximately 5 blocks west of Western Avenue)

Featuring Free Works by the Following Artists, Individuals, and Organizations:

Tony Alamo

Matti Allison

Anonymous

Mar’a JosŽ Barandiar‡n & Michael Bulka

Baur Au Lac ZŸrich

Bible Helps

Shawn Calvert

Charm School Industries

Coalition for Positive Sexuality

Credit Suisse

Wilfrid DŽsir

Jim Duignan

Anthony Elms & Joel Score

Ending the Begin Tract League

Evangelical Tract Distributors

Fellowship Tract League

F.T.L.

Nicolas Floc'h

Grace & Truth

Emily Jacir

Jews For Jesus

Kevin Kaempf

Kim and Mike

(more)

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Featured Artists, Individuals, and Organizations Continued:

Nance Klehm

Kate Kranack

Liberation Rock

Josh MacPhee

Ryan McGinness

Adam Mikos

Mr. Nash

Ralph Nielsen

Leah Oates

Old Paths Tract Society Inc.

Krista Peel

Michael Piazza

Pilgrim Tract Society, Inc.

Ben Rubin

Bob Shaw

David Shrigley

Shy Girl

Owen Smith

Dana Sperry

Jocelyn Superstar 2000

Temporary Services

Threadculture

Several Unknown Individuals

Vladlen Voronin

Oli Watt

and more!

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What is Temporary Services?

Temporary Services is an artist-run space. The five artists currently involved are: Brett Bloom, Marc Fischer, Kevin Kaempf, Lora Lode, and Lillian Yvonne. We occupy an office and exhibition space at 202 S. State Street Suite 1124, and also present projects off-site.

What is Free For All?

Free For All is a one day only off-site exhibit and event presented by Temporary Services and curated by Marc Fischer. The featured artists and organizations have donated materials in quantities ranging from 16 copies to over 325 examples. All of these materials will be laid out on folding card tables in stacks and piles. When the event begins at 1:00 PM, the public will be invited to take whatever they like. The entire exhibit is being given away. The show will last only as long as the materials provided remain available.

What will be given away at Free For All?

Over 8,000 objects will be given away. A wide variety of materials will be available including postcards, stickers, books, booklets, flyers, audio tapes, computer disks, tracts, posters, video tapes, and modified medicine capsules. Free packaged food and drinks will be provided as refreshments during the opening.

Why are you giving things away at a store-front and not selling them in a gallery?

Generosity and inclusion an important part of the way Temporary Services operates. By holding the show during the afternoon at a street level storefront in a residential community, we hope to make the work in Free For All available to people that might not see it otherwise. By allowing people to freely choose what theyÕd like to take with them, the usual gallery notions of affordability or cost will be eliminated from the selection process. There is also a hope that the people who collect materials at Free For All will share these objects with their friends, family, and other audiences after the show ends. We are providing free silk-screened storage boxes to encourage the collection and transportation of the work, and to make it easier for people to keep the things that they collect together as a portable exhibit. An accompanying text from the show (ÒRe-Exhibition StrategiesÓ) suggests how one might extend the exhibit by sharing the collected works with others in a variety of places.

Why does Free For All mix together work by artists and non-art Organizations?

Temporary Services believes that it is often important to present art alongside other works that are part of our visual culture. Free For All attempts to break down the distinctions between mass-produced objects created by artists, and other individuals and organizations that similarly present ideas in small portable packages. In the exhibit, no distinction will be made regarding what was created by an artist, and what was produced by another type of organization or individual. In some cases it will be very hard to tell the difference. ArtistsÕ works will enjoy a rare opportunity to co-exist with work from other aspects of the world.