Monday January 7, 2008

07:30 PM : Rauchenberg Rephotgraphs Atget in Paris @ Powells

Visual Arts / Architecture Flyered by Rob W.

I have never visited Paris, but I am digging lately the film Paris, je t'aimie, love stories and observations on the human condition shot in every neighborhood of the City of Light. (Someone should do the same for Portland!) Studying historic photography, I came across the documentary photography Eugène Atget who photographed Paris from 1888 to 1927, continuing the work of photographic pioneer Felix Nadar. Christopher Rauschenberg has visited Paris, often, photographing back streets, flea markets and landscapes. He has for some time also rephotographed Atget's Paris, same place, different time. Tonight he speaks of the experience and signs a book on Atget's Paris, rephotographed. Rauschenberg's book is Paris Changing, Princeton University Press. Perhaps in 100 years we will find the same fascination in rephotographs of Portland's Grid Project, founded by Rauschenberg, also a founder of the Blue Sky Gallery. At Powells City of Books www.powells.com 10th and W. Burnside 7:30PM Free

07:30 PM : Marc Fisher from Temporary Services @ PSU

Talk/Expo Flyered by kmikeym

MFA Lecture Series: Marc Fisher from Temporary Services
7:30pm Monday, January 7, 2008
5th Avenue Cinema, 510 SW Hall Street. Free admission.
Marc Fischer, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin created Temporary Services in 1998. They collaborate with each other and others in exhibitions, events, projects and publications in order to inspire socially relevant dialog. Temporary Services' projects include Prisoners' Inventions (a collaboration with an incarcerated artist named Angelo that resulted in a book and full-size recreation of Angelo's cell created from blueprints sent through the mail) and The Library Project, where the group surreptitiously added 100 artist books into the holdings of the main Chicago library branch. Seeking a diverse audience for their self-published works, and they are not concerned with the distinctions made between art and life.

Fischer is also a co-founder of Mess Hall, an experimental cultural center in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood. Most recently, he launched the new participatory initiative Public Collectors. Public Collectors consists of informal agreements where collectors allow the contents of their collection to be published and permit those who are curious to directly experience the objects in person so that knowledge, ideas and expertise can be freely shared and exchanged.

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www.temporaryservices.org
www.messhall.org
www.publiccollectors.org