I like to imagine that collapsing the economy is extremely important for establishing additional relational value structures and ultimately encouraging more sustainable ways to survive together in the 21st Century. [If you're a return-reader, you are well aware of this and are probably tired of hearing me say it.]

Cue the presciently [somewhat] well supported efforts of Temporary Services, who are comprised of Brett Bloom, Marc Fischer and Salem Collo-Julin, and have been producing exhibitions, events, projects, and publications since 1998. Their latest project is Art Work : A National Conversation About Art, Labor, and Economics, and is directly concerned with the livelihood of artists in the Untited States of America.

Their efforts to establish a professional knowledge base and platform for concrete career sustainability is an incredibly transgressive action for the fine art industry [including the aspects of it that don't involve class theatrics: Jeffrey Deitch/Biennales/Art Fairs].

Finally, an organization that helps artists do what they’re not inherently good at, because they’re mostly arrested by their own intuitive organizations.

On the projects download page, you can download the publication in various formats, making the consumption of the support-oriented information extremely easy to access.

If you are an art educator, please make this publication project part of your curriculum, IMMEDIATELY.

Additionally, you can learn more about Temporary Services and the Art Work publication at Rhizome.org.

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JEFF KOONS DIES IN TOKYO BLAST is being reported from the ‘Unknown Journal’s’ site. Not only does this seem like an absurd media situation because of the claim of an art-terrorist group, but the back and forth questioning of the ‘reality’ of the situation, via the comments section, gives us a wonderful opportunity to admire the ‘everything is critical’ apparatus of art applied to the world of blogging. Perhaps the headline also gives us an identification of blogging aggregation as a performative tactic, or perhaps this actually did happen. Either way, the opportunity to exercise preparation for the death of one of art’s greatest living celebrities is an appropriate activity to participate in, yet hopefully the exercise is being started well in advance of the actual event [of said death]. I wouldn’t imagine death upon anyone.

However, if this death news is an aggregation stunt, the author will be glad to know that I did find their blog through it and I’m now linking others to it.

The excerpt below was taken directly from the about page:

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‘Unknown’ is the condition of the
obscure modern artist. The modern
artist eats exile; is resistance; seeks
visions.A journal of autobiography,
biography and resistance -
the retelling of unknown.
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And to Jeff Koons, Live Long and Prosper.

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The following art school art talk stars an impressive cast of competent professionals such as Bruce High Quality Foundation University, Colin Lang, Robert Linsley, Mira Schor, and Howard Singerman.

The professionals discuss the professionalization of the art-field in addition to non-traditional teaching methods, the history of art’s academy, and the further development of ‘models for the future of art school.’

The two hour thirteen minute and fourty-eight second performance is a wonderful tool for discussing the art production of institutions and their abilities to define the philosophical grounds in which art develops its social functions. The performance does [through attempting to] do much more than this, but you’ll have to listen to name the what and how. Listen and download from Cabinet magazine’s site.

Additionally, this discussion is great when coupled with considerations of the amateur in relation to the professional, in After the Amature, by Ed Halter, on Rhizome.Org.

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Another Sternberg Press collaborative gem.

The following text was taken directly from the following linked site, where you can download the digital version of this book for FREE.

“The book was initiated by the artists group Superflex, but it is not about them. It is about the many approaches to the creation, dissemination and maintenance of alternative models for social and economic organisation, and the practical and theoretical implications, consequences and possibilities of these self-organised structures. The counter-economic strategies presented here are alternatives to classical capitalist economic organisation that exploit, or have been produced by, the existing global economic system.

Esssays by ten writers cover a wide cross-section of activity, from new approaches to intellectual property and the implications of the free/open source software movement to political activism and the de facto self-organisation embodied in informal architecture and the so-called black economy.

Self-organisation/Counter-economic strategies is not a comprehensive overview or an attempt to unify these diverse interpretations. It is intended as a toolbox of ideas, situations and approaches, and includes many practical examples.”

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The following promotional video is a strangely poetic visualization strategy for thinking about industries that depend on content based place-making. [I clearly like to think of "Art" working this way, as its nature of being an organically replicating collective activity is responsible for local gentrification and God knows how many tourism grants.]

The video is also incredibly helpful in my own pursuit of expressing my fascination and use of the color green.

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