A Village Does Nothing

"In the beginning there was a lot of discussion between the residents. Some were resistant, but through several months of communication and negotiation, they finally agreed to the idea of one week without work. One of the biggest and most interesting hurdles was the fact that the people had a particularly strong Protestant work ethic. To be not working, but also not on vacation, inspired a lot of guilt in them. This follows from the rationalisation that free time amounts to vacation, which is intrinsically bound to work time. You earn free time because you have put in work time. This is what i call the colonization of everyday life, which happens through the organization of time and its use, which is key to understanding the potential for public interventions."

- Manray Hsu, from "Public Interventions" Curating Now 04, published by the California College of the Arts in 2004

Mess Hall

"Mess Hall is an experimental cultural center located in a storefront in the Rogers Park neighborhood. It's an open space for events, lectures, workshops, art, ideas, and swap." [+ classes, actions, public projects, meetings, meals]

See the calendar of events at: http://my.calendars.net/messhall.

http://www.temporaryservices.org/mess_hall.html

Temporary Services is working with Ava Bromberg (from In the Field), Marianne Fairbanks & Jane Palmer (JAM), Sam Gould (from Red76Arts Group), and Dan S. Wang, on this initiative.

Fritz Haeg Salon

Los Angles based Salon by Fritz Haeg

in 2001 i moved into a crazy house perched on a hillside in the mount washington neighborhood of los angeles. part subterranean skylit concrete bunker, part airtraffic control tower, part geodesic dome and sitting in a garden that i have been gradually developing into series of diverse outdoor rooms. sundown salon evolved out of the desire to use the house as more than just a place to live. on periodic sunday evenings the home and gardens are made public, as a venue for the free exchange of ideas, art and performance.