You can count me in! On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:26 PM, ILSSA Operator < operator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Happy Holidays, impractical laborers! > > We *know* many of you must be away from email this week, you lucky souls. > But those of you who have read the message about the 2012 Exhibition, we > need your input! > > Right now we have only about a dozen replies (all YESes), but as we have > over 130 members (!) we want the first ILSSA exhibition to represent a > larger percentage of our membership. > > Please, if you haven't already, weigh in with your interest in > participating. Details are below if you missed the first message. > > Here's to 2011, fellow ILSSAians. We wish you & yours the very very best. > > cheers, > your Co-Ops > > -- > from original message, sent 12/23 > -- > ILSSA's Krista Hoefle (Local 574 Shop KH) has invited ILSSA to mount an > exhibition at the Gallery at Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. > The show will open in January 2012. As it is a year away, we have dreamed up > a little idea that makes use of those very same hours. > > ILSSA is an organization about process, and we'd like this -- the first > ILSSA exhibition -- to exhibit evidence of our members' processes, for every > day we each work in 2011. How so? > > For each day you labor impractically, beginning on January 1, 2011 and > through December 31, 2011: please save a remnant of your process. It should > be small enough to fit in an envelope. Date the envelope, put it in a box, > and and repeat for each day worked. In January 2011, mail this box to the > gallery (details forthcoming, don't fret about cost, etc.). Our plan is to > display these remnants, giving visitors a sense of the collective days > worked by our union, as well as the nature of such work. > > Logistics aside, we're trying to gauge interest, as we'd like everyone to > begin saving as of January 1st! > Please email operator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx as soon as possible and let us > know if you are interested in taking part or not. Yes!! or No. is all we > need at this time; further details forthcoming. > -- > Many thanks! > > *--* > *AS MANY HOURS AS IT TAKES* > ILSSA Operator > operator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.impractical-labor.org > > > > -- "One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three is the conviction that nothing like this, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding, has ever happened to anyone before." - Joan Didion