Hideous Beast is invested in creating alternate forms of social exchange. To further this practice, we examine the efforts of other artists and cultural producers who promote new understandings and modes of social interaction. Many of these projects carry an imperative for the gesture to be repeated. This is apparent either implicitly in the ideology and logic of the activity, or explicitly in the form of instruction sets or public presentation. As an extension of our own search for new tactics of engagement and in order to evaluate these reproducible actions, we recreate other artist’s projects, document our process and analyze the results. We call this series of investigations Field Test.
For this instance of Field Test we reproduced Temporary Services’ project Product Placements: Ongoing Public Research in Denver, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois and Toronto, Ontario. This publication includes the original text for the project found on Temporary Services website, documentation of our efforts in each city and our reflections on the process. View and download here!
Field Test was presented as part of doublebounce, a curatorial project about collaboration over geographic distance organized by Helen Reed and Maiko Tanaka at XPACE in Toronto, Ontario, in March of 2008.
Temporary Services | http://temporaryservices.org
doublebounce | http://www.doublebounce.org
XPACE | http://xpace.info
DOLLAR STORE MAP
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This map of dollar stores in the Toronto area is a supplement to the publication Field Test: Temporary Services Product Placements. In hopes of further expanding the project we are providing these dollar store maps, the Field Test guide, Product Placement totes and some dollar store supplies to willing participants. In exchange we ask that you execute your own product placement and provide us with any documentation and reflections. Please leave your email address so that we may contact you about the project. Any submissions will be published on the Hideous Beast website under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
PP Denver + Chicago from charles roderick on Vimeo.
