I would love to participate! Best, Amy Brock-Reed On Thursday, December 30, 2010, 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 TAKESILSSA > Operatoroperator@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx://www.impractical-labor.org > > > -- Amy Brock-Reed St. Seraphim Press and Paper stseraphimpress.net