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Intermod Series \u2014 2: LAACM \/ Brennan McGaffey, August – December, 2001.<\/h4>\n

August – December 2001<\/p>\n

Low Altitude Atmospheric & Civic Modifications. In 2001, the Intermod Series launched rockets in the city which contained payloads designed to create micro-alterations of a city’s near atmospheric environment. The LAACM had a monthly schedule with five different payloads which, when released into the air, propagated the designed effects determined by the use of therapeutics, noise and EMF screening, weather adjustment, and unusual optical events. The launch schedule was distributed over a 5-month period. Updates, locations, and cancellations were posted on the Launch Schedule Bulletin toll-free 800 phone number. Originally hosted by Temporary Services.<\/p>\n

A special Intermod mailer was created and sent out to the Temporary Services mailing list to announce the project. The mailer was inflated and contained an embroidered patch, an embossed paper description, and stickers.<\/p>\n

Photos show the Intermod diagram to illustrate the rocket launch sequence, a picture of the south-side launch, pictures of the rocket payloads, close-up photos of rockets and the kit, and pictures of a launch event by Deborah Stratman.<\/p>\n

Follow link below for the five rocket payload descriptions and the Launch Schedule Bulletin 1-800 phone number recording for the scheduled launch period and additional information.<\/p>\n

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Ancient Order Fliers Online \u2014 August<\/h4>\n

The Ancient Order Fliers were initially presented as a part of our services Drawn Out<\/a>\u00a0 and Free For All<\/a>. Thanks to the great enthusiasm and generosity of UbuWeb editor Kenneth Goldsmith, you can now view the complete collection of Ancient Order Fliers online<\/a>. Ubu Web is an exhaustive web site for Visual, Concrete and Sound Poetry. The site also contains numerous pages of found fliers and scribblings of the “insane.”<\/p>\n

The Ancient Order flyers were found over the course of a year in downtown Chicago. The main purpose of each flyer is to bring to light the mysterious workings of a group called “The Ancient Order” – who this group is, when they will strike in the future, what they were responsible for in the past, and how they have left their mark throughout history. No one we know ever saw the person that was behind these flyers. Every flyer is a single sided 8 1\/2″ X 11″ photocopy, though several are longer and feature two or more pages stapled together. The flyers were only found inside free newspaper dispensers. Like newspapers, the flyers were always dated, and were folded so that the bold headlines could be read along the top. Only the most recent flyer was ever available; back issues did not recirculate. Almost exactly one year after the first Ancient Order flyer was found, they seem to have stopped circulating completely. The last flyer discovered, “The Ancient Order and the Pearl Harbor Prevision,” is dated 3-17-2000.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to: Matti Allison, Mason McCormick, and Paul Gebbia for contributing Ancient Order flyers to this collection.<\/p>\n

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Autonomous Territories of Chicago \u2014 Hyde Park Art Center, October 14, 2001 (One day only)<\/h4>\n

A FESTIVAL IN CELEBRATION OF RADICAL CULTURE AND RESISTANCE<\/p>\n

Come share your skills, knowledge & voices!\u00a0 Meet local groups who operate creatively outside the cage of capitalism!\u00a0 Stake your claims on a Chicago liberated from state & corporate control!\u00a0 Join activists, artists & self-determining citizens seek new meanings in the events of 9\/11 and confront the dominant racist & war-mongering public discussion!<\/p>\n

OCT. 14, 2001 * 11AM-10PM
\nHYDE PARK ART CENTER
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\nDEL PRADO BUILDING<\/p>\n

INDEPENDENT MEDIA * PINATAS * BIKE REPAIR * ROBOTS * PIRATE RADIO * PROPAGANDA * FEAST OF FORAGED FOOD * ANARCHY * GAMES * RADICAL TEACHERS * DUCKS * UNDERGROUND MAPS * DONUTS<\/p>\n

We are providing fabric membranes, foraged food and five new booklets:<\/p>\n

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Biggest Fags Ever | Zena Sakowski and Rob Kelly \u2014 August 3 – 17, 2001. Opening service at our Downtown office August 3rd – Service at Zena and Rob’s building August 10th – Closing of our office space for good August 17th, 2001<\/h4>\n

Rob Kelly and Zena Sakowski are audacious artists in every meaning of the word. They are fearlessly daring; their work is unrestrained by convention or propriety. They will define the limits of any opportunity they are given by exceeding all expectations. They show little regard for constraints of scale, architecture, or the moral boundaries of their audience. In short, they worry us. Is this lack of manners and restraint a good thing? In their case, absolutely.<\/p>\n

This is the first concentrated presentation of Rob and Zena’s work in Chicago. This will also be the last show at Temporary Services’ 202 South State Street office space. In addition to taking over our office and the adjacent room, Rob and Zena have planned an additional event at their Bridgeport headquarters. The exact details of all of their projects remain vague to us. We are learning about their transformations of our office space only after the fact. We gave them the keys to our office and they have been coming and going as they wish. We are wandering into all of this half blind and we couldn’t be happier to give these artists the opportunity to run amok. We have committed to their work – whatever it is – in all its glory. At this point, we are helpless to intervene.<\/p>\n

Schedule and addresses:<\/p>\n

202 S. State Street, Suite 1124
\nOpening service: Friday, August 3, 5-9 PM
\nHours: Saturday Aug. 4, 12-5 PM\u00a0 \/ Saturday Aug. 11, 12-5 PM\u00a0 \/ Saturday Aug. 18, 12-5 PM
\nClosing service at 202 S. State on Friday, August 17, 5-9 PM<\/p>\n

And:<\/p>\n

3201 S. Morgan, 1st Floor
\nOpening service: Friday, August 10, 5 PM – LATE
\nHours: Saturday Aug. 11, 12-5 PM<\/p>\n

Images from S. Morgan:<\/p>\n

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Helidon Gjergji \u2014 Two new installations. April 20 – May 19, 2001. Opening service: April 20, 5 – 9 pm, 2001<\/h4>\n

1. Kaleidoscope: The Symmetry of Chance<\/p>\n

This project consists of a human-sized kaleidoscope. The objects inside the kaleidoscope are not the usual glass or marble stones. There are three, small, painted TV sets. The outside of the kaleidoscope is made out of mirrored aluminium. The kaleidoscope itself stands perpendicular to the floor.<\/p>\n

With the TV patterns generated by the kaleidoscope we might get a football game, a peanut butter commercial and a talk show about the health care system in poor areas at the same time. In another case, an erotic scene, an electoral campaign and a documentary about global warming would all coincide. If these cases were generated by simply changing the channels of one’s own TV, it might seem that the programs were unrelated to one another. But in the context of the kaleidoscope, we immediately get a symmetrical pattern of these seemingly random programs – that is, formal symmetry that unavoidably recalls a conceptual one (that actually underlies all possible combinations) and so establishes links among “random” phenomena. Thus, the kaleidoscope makes visible the formal symmetry of the different channels and programs. It reveals the conspiracy of the underlying powerful interests that constitutes the politics and economics of today’s media as an undivided body – a homogeneous, global whole.<\/p>\n

2. Tele Television<\/p>\n

A TV installation is placed against the wall of the main room, by the entrance door. A glossy black surface, as big as the wall, is placed on the opposite side of the room. The room is dark so that its only light source is emitted from the TV-sets. The images coming from the TV-sets will be reflected in the glossy surface, although in very foggy way. A strip of rope will block the entrance to the room. The viewer won’t be able to see the actual installation, but only its shadowy reflection in the glossy black surface across from it.<\/p>\n

3. TV Guide<\/p>\n

The first two pieces are accompanied by the necessary TV Guide.<\/p>\n

– Helidon Gjergji<\/p>\n

Images from the exhibition:<\/p>\n

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Pell City Book Drive \u2014 Dana Sperry. Launched concurrently with The Library Project. Continues through May, 2001<\/h4>\n

BRING BOOKS.<\/p>\n

My car broke down at a gas station in Pell City, Alabama when I was moving back to Georgia from California. A stranger named Rae came out to see if I needed a hand. Over the next twenty-two hours, a series of strangers helped me get my car fixed while showing me around town. Coincidentally, the day I was there, the only bookstore in Pell City and the surrounding towns was closing.<\/p>\n

I am organizing a series of book drives for their local public library as a return gift to the town. Sitting right downtown, the library is the only public source of books in the town. I am launching a book drive in Chicago that will coincide with the opening for The Library Project at Temporary Services. There will be boxes to collect donated books. Please bring books to the opening or during the hours on the 3 days in March.<\/p>\n

All books are accepted. They will sell any books they cannot use to raise money to acquire new books. The first book drive in Bloomington, Indiana raised over 320 books. Donations ranged from books on I-Ching and Harry Potter to romance novels and biology textbooks. I would like to double the size of the library.<\/p>\n

– Dana Sperry<\/p>\n

Pell City Public Library
\n1923 First Ave North
\nPell City, Alabama 35125<\/p>\n

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The Library Project preview and launch\u2014 Temporary Services office space, March 16, 17 and 19, 2001<\/h4>\n

Hours are Friday 5 – 9 PM, Saturday 10 AM – 6 PM and Monday 10 AM – 6 PM<\/p>\n

Opening service on Friday the 16th from 5 – 9 PM.<\/p>\n

The books were taken to the Harold Washington Library Center after the preview.<\/p>\n

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1. Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views contributing to their creation.<\/p>\n

– The American Library Association, from the Library Bill of Rights<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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[…] I became a young novelist and wrote a book about the Jonestown, Pennsylvania, flood in 1830 – something where Clara Barton threw her weight around. The book was three-hundred-twenty-one pages long and I had set for myself the deadline of my eleventh birthday. I’d heard the girl who wrote Black Beauty was eleven so I wanted to be the youngest novelist in the world.\u00a0 Since I didn’t have any idea of how to get it published, I typed it all up, stapled it together, cut up some beer-case cardboard, and covered it with white butcher paper and Saran Wrap. I painted a relevant picture for the cover and smuggled it into the library and put it on the shelves in the correct alphabetical order. I never saw that book again.<\/p>\n

– Cookie Mueller, from “My Bio: Notes on an American Childhood”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Click booklet image to download PDF.<\/p><\/div>\n

With The Library Project, Temporary Services is adding 100 new books and artists\u2019 projects into the library holdings through a donation. The library has not been told about the gifts they are going to receive. Every title has been checked against Harold Washington\u2019s catalog to verify that each book is not already owned by the library. Several books that are already in the collection, are being added in creatively altered new versions. We are giving the Library books that it has not acquired on its own. We believe these are books that it will probably want to keep. Nearly all of the books are brand new and most of them were published or created within the last few years.<\/p>\n

Though composed almost entirely of books by artists, this gift will infiltrate all of Harold Washington Library and not merely the floor devoted to Visual and Performing Arts. Creating new juxtapositions of materials not normally possible in common library practice is one component of this project. Another major goal is to bring obscure, subversive, self-published, hand-made, or limited edition works by underexposed artists to a wider audience.<\/p>\n

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The following presses, artists, and groups, contributed books and book projects: <\/strong>An “Uncontrollable”, Janell Baxter, E.C. Brown, The Center for New Community, Brooke Chaffee, Raimond Chaves, Salem Collo-Julin, Jim Duignan, Paul Druecke, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Flotsam, Fordham Urban Law Journal, Emily Forman, Paul Gebbia, Helidon Gjergji, Kenneth Goldsmith, Kenneth Hirsch, Steven Hudosh,\u00a0 Douglas Huebler, James Hugunin, Rob Kelly & Zena Sakowski, Nance Klehm, Kathleen Kranack, Stephan Lapthisophon, Aemin Annie Lee, Cindy Loehr, Josh MacPhee, Ryan McGinness, Rebecca Moran & Rosie Sanders,\u00a0 Simon Morris & Helen Sacoor, Leah Oates, OK & OR, Stephanie Ognar, Trevor Paglen, Laurie Palmer, Robert Peters, Michael Piazza, Andrea Pinal, Jennifer Ramsey, Karen Reimer, REPOhistory, Bruno Richard, Chris Ritter, Jorge Rivera, Van Harrison, Chemi Rosado Seijo, David Shrigley, The Somnambulist, Dana Sperry, Deborah Stratman, Ervin Stuntz, Jocelyn Superstar 2001, Royal Torres, Samuel Torres,\u00a0 Pedro Velez, Oli Watt, Tara Zanzig, and Pam Zimmerman<\/p>\n

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Essays, interviews and other texts about The Library Project:
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