attuning (Point of Contact Gallery) broadcasts auditory traces from the human, non-human and material resonance emanating from a site-responsive 24-hour immersive experience.

attuning Point of Contact Gallery Syracuse 24 hours 9pm Thurs 1 Sept till 9pm Fri 2 Sept

The Idleness Labouritory challenges modern ideas of labour and idleness to make propositions for an aesthetic ethos of co-creative experience. The Lab develops performative projects, practices and experiences that exceed narrow constructions of idleness as unproductive and labour as productive so as to reveal lucid, creative and critically enquiring modes of generative activity. The Idleness Labouritory plays with performative ways of questioning, exploring and attributing value in contemporary creative arts practices. Often with the contribution of collaborating participants, Lab activities perform propositional relationships to exchanges of value and potential relations amongst communities of practice, economies, material conditions and ecosystems. The Lab research seeks to generate examples of practices that posit the kind of re-orientations necessary to engage with current challenges facing living systems, including human society.

The Idleness Labouritory is a performance practice by Mick Douglas and Julieanna Preston with collaborators: Kalia Zizi Barrow, Joan Farrenkopf, Coco Ke Huang, Tamara Miller, Joanna Spitzner, Ioana Georgeta Turcan. Recent works include Reading Labours, a 24-hour performance presented by Urban Dream Brokerage, Wellington, New Zealand, March 2016. (reviewed here).

Mick Douglas works in performance social practice and teaches in the School of Architecture and Design at RMIT University Australia. www.mickdouglas.net

Julieanna Preston’s spatial and performance practice is informed by architecture, building, feminist and new materialist philosophy. She teaches at the College of Creative Arts, Massey University, New Zealand. www.julieannapreston.space

Catherine Lord, Harmony Hammond, Ulrike Müller, Martha Wilson, Aruna D’Souza

from the Feminist Art Project: http://feministartproject.rutgers.edu

The Artist as Archivist
Chair: Aruna D’Souza, Independent Scholar
Panelists: Harmony Hammond, artist, writer, and independent curator; Catherine Lord, Professor of Studio Art, University of California, Irvine; Ulrike Müller, artist; and Martha Wilson, artist and Founding Director, Franklin Furnace.
This panel will address the question of artist’s archives — archives of artistic work, archives created by artists of work that otherwise would be lost to time, archives as art. While the archive has long had an important place in feminist art practice,  representing a crucial artistic strategy to deal with the exclusion of women artists from the museum since the early 1970s by creating and occupying alternative spaces, and while they have been often the richest site of feminist work within such institutions, we will pose the question of how these archives operate – both as a literal space and as a conceptual resistance – in relation to the museum, to artistic practice, and to personal narrative.