Temporary Services creates temporary public projects that defy existent modes of artistic intervention while subverting authoritative civic structures.

Temporary Services

Temporary Services is a collective of artist-activists committed to providing accessible art to the public. They produce exhibitions, publications, events, and projects as a way to explore the social context and potential of art and its viewers. They are best known for “The Library Project” (2001), where they clandestinely added over a hundred new books designed by artists to the Harold Washington Library Center in Chicago.

Founded 1998, based in Chicago