[ilssa] Re: 2012 ILSSA exhibition @ St Mary's College

  • From: amanda mello <amandagoesboom@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ilssa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:12:15 -0500

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
>
>
>
>


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