School of Critical Studies

Marc Fischer is a member of the group Temporary Services (temporaryservices.org) which maintains the publishing imprint and webstore Half Letter Press (halfletterpress.com). Since 1998, Temporary Services has made 118 booklets, books, and newspapers along with posters, flyers and other forms of printed ephemera. They have produced works on a wide range of social, political and creative subjects with dozens of collaborators. In 2007 Fischer established the project Public Collectors which focuses on the kind of cultural and subcultural materials that are normally the domain of amateur experts working outside of museums and large institutions. Public Collectors has created over 35 publications to date, including Hardcore Architecture (https://hardcorearchitecture.tumblr.com), exploring the relationship between the architecture of living spaces and the history of underground American hardcore bands in the 1980s, and the Library Excavations booklet series.  

In his presentation, Marc will discuss his publishing history as one half of the legendary artist collaboration Temporary Services, point students towards alternative paths to publication -- as authors, editors and/or artists -- and survey the landscape of expanded/experimental publishing practices.