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Edited by Eric Golo Stone, Fillip is pleased to announce the release of Services Working Group, a new publication presenting complete transcripts from the ground-breaking working group on labour relations and institutional governance in the arts organized in 1994 by Helmut Draxler and Andrea Fraser at the Kunstraum of the University of Lüneburg.

Held on January 22 and 23, 1994, the candid discussions between the organizers, Kunstraum representatives, and invited practitioners were video-recorded. Newly-produced transcripts of this compelling recording are presented here in English and German, documenting the entirety of the debut Services Working Group discussions. These transcripts are supplemented by newly-digitized photograph documentation of the conversations and a newly-commissioned post-script text by Draxler and Fraser that reexamines Services in light of current discussions around the socioeconomic conditions of art and its institutions.

Contributions by Judith Barry, Ute Meta Bauer, Jochen Becker, Ulrich Bischoff, Beatrice von Bismarck, Iwona Blazwick, Susan Cahan, Michael Clegg, Stephan Dillemuth, Helmut Draxler, Andrea Fraser, Renée Green, Martin Guttmann, Renate Lorenz, Christian Philipp Müller, Fritz Rahmann, Eric Golo Stone, Fred Wilson, and Ulf Wuggenig.

Services Working Group is edited by Eric Golo Stone. It is available for purchase for $25 CAD, shipped internationally. Wholesale orders may be placed through Art Metropole (US/CA) and Motto Books (EU). The German translations of the transcripts included in this volume were generously supported by Künstlerhaus Stuttgart and the Kunstraum of Leuphana University Lüneburg.