Day 9

We will be back at work in 26 days

What is to be done - in tray



Day 8

Think - Paste

 

Day 7

Day 6

Make Zoom

Find Make

Make Delete

Day 5 - artists at work together

Our first day working in the same space.

This gave us chance to discuss and wonder about our different approaches to the rules and system we had set up. It is useful to note how much variation can be achieved within a system.

This seems to follow de Certeau's thought's on the agency of people in their everyday activities from The Practice of Everyday Life. They are able to inhabit a variety of tasks and make them their own, undetected by the watchful eye of the ruling system.

As a research task this has been helpful to my own consideration about the use of algorithmic systems within my art practice. Collaboration allows you an insight into the other ways of performing a task that you might otherwise consider tight and specific. In order to create a system which will bring consistent results, while using more than one operator, it becomes apparent how detailed the instruction will need to be.

R

Day 4

...get a new job

There is also the task of describing what we are doing. Responses differ. The chance finding of this newspaper cutting is a bit like one of today's responses of "why don't you just get a job then"

 

Day 3

System of labour: think/justify 

Day 2

Make - Cut

Make - Justify

Write - Find

Day 1

A busy day with 40 pieces of work produced!

Ready to begin?

- 2.12.13 - 

- Setting up at Bank Street Arts today -

- Gallery 5- 

- Ready for work tomorrow -

Start

Systems of Labour begins on 3 December at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield.
Open Tuesday to Saturday, 10.00 - 5.00

This blog will follow the progression of Systems of Labour and will be updated over the course of the exhibition

What artists do

		Make	Read	Think	Write
	Alternate
	Copy
	Cut
	Delete
	Edit
	Find
	Insert
	Justify
	Paste
	Replace
	Shift
	View
	Zoom

Task begins