Art Work comes to Scotland
Temporary Services‘ project Art Work has raised important questions about the personal economy and practice of artists. On the back of one-off newspaper-format publication, distributed free throughout the US and internationally, Temporary Services have kick started a discussion about the ways that artists and creative people use alternative economies to once again challenge the idea of competition and the market dominance of culture. Temporary Services produce exhibitions, events, projects and publications. They say “The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors is irrelevant to us.”
The Scottish Artists Union has invited Brett Bloom, one of the founders of Temporary Services, currently based in Denmark, to speak at the SAU AGM (7.00pm 30 September 2010, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh) about Art Work. Follow up events are planned for November.
Center for Urban Pedagogy
Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) releases another three in the series of Making Policy Public posters. CUP, based in NY, make educational projects about places and how they change.
Barriers to Reentry. This poster takes a look at formerly incarcerated people and the difficulties they face when trying to reenter the workforce. It was produced through a collaboration with the Fortune Society and Sara McKay.
I Got Arrested! Now What? This poster breaks down the juvenile justice system comic-style. It was produced through a collaboration with the Center for Court Innovation, the Youth Justice Board, and Danica Novgorodoff.
Immigrants Beware! This poster explores the immigration consequences of criminal convictions and gives non-citizens knowledge and resources to fight the deportation process. It was produced through a collaboration with Families for Freedom and designers Lana Cavar and Tamara Maletic.
Composer in residence
John Browne is Composer in Residence at the Florence Nightingale School for Nursing & Midwifery. Interesting blog including ideas in development such as a songbook for nurses.
Calendar Variations
Drawing in context, C Fremantle, 2010
Walking In Long Grass Score
Looking for an area of long grass.
Walking into the middle.
Deciding on a shape: a square, a circle, even a triangle.
Walking the shape until the grass is flattened.
Walking hands outstretched to feel the stems and seeds and chaff.
Standing back and admiring your efforts.
Going back in.
Looking at the flattened grass, or
Smelling the scent, or
Walking around the perimeter of the shape to make it bigger, or
Walking the other way around the shape, or
Lying down in the middle in the long grass.
Chu Yuan, Georgina Barney, Janet McEwan, Reiko Goto and Fiona Hope - Woodend Barn
CHRIS FREMANTLE 
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