Workers Installing a Work, Palimpsest, July 7 2011

THE EXHIBITION IS ENTITLED THE WORKERS INSTALLING A WORK. ITS PURPOSE IS TO EXHIBIT WORK CONSIDERING OUTSOURCING AS METAPHOR FOR INTERDEPENDENCE AND SYSTEMS OF VALIDATION, AND ACT AS A WITNESS TO GESTURES OF LANGUAGE, TIME, CONNECTEDNESS AND DISTANCE.

THE EXHIBITION WILL EXIST IN TWO PARTS. A PHYSICAL INSTALLATION INCLUDING WORK BY BURGHARD, WILLIE BRISCO, CRAIG LEONARD, BRIDGET MOSER, AND ROBIN SIMPSON, AND A VIDEO BY JACQUELINE LACHANCE, WILL BE INSTALLED AT THE KHYBER ICA IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. THE ISSUE WILL BE ON DISPLAY AS AN EXHIBITION FROM JUNE 9TH TO JULY 7TH, 2011. ALL WORK WILL BE INSTALLED IN THE GALLERY BY PALIMPSEST USING THE POMODORO METHOD, AS SUGGESTED AND INSTRUCTED BY ROBIN SIMPSON. THIS DECISION WILL BE FURTHER EXPLICATED IN TEXTS INCLUDED IN THE LIBRARY.

THE SECOND PART OF THE INSTALLATION WILL BE AN OPEN-ACCESS LIBRARY. PLEASE CONTRIBUTE.

THE LIBRARY

THE LIBRARY WILL FUNCTION AS THE SECOND HALF OF THE EXHIBITION THE WORKERS INSTALLING A WORK, ON DISPLAY AT THE KHYBER ICA IN HALIFAX NOVA SCOTIA, FROM JUNE 9TH TO JULY 7TH. THE LIBRARY WILL FUNCTION AS A FREE-ACCESS, OPEN CALL FOR PDF TEXTS WHICH CONSIDER WORK AND OUTSOURCING IN ALL OF ITS FORMS. TEXTS ADDED BY USERS WILL NOT BE EDITED OR CENSORED IN ANY WAY. THE OPEN CALL FOR LIBRARY SUBMISSIONS WILL RUN THE DURATION OF THE EXHIBITION, FOR THE DATES STATED ABOVE.

THE LIBRARY WILL BE PARTIALLY CURATED BY PALIMPSEST, WITH TEXTS PROVIDED BY JACOB WREN, BRAD TROMEL, DANIELLE ST-AMOUR, TESS EDMONSON, CRAIG FAHNER, DANNA VAJDA, ROBIN SIMPSON AND NEAL ROCKWELL, AS WELL AS AN EXCERPT OF THE BOOK BECOMING TARDEN BY JILL MAGID (INCLUDED WITH PERMISSION FROM THE AUTHOR). THE LIBRARY WILL ALSO INCLUDE THE CURATOR’S STATEMENTS, EDITORIAL CONTENT AND CATALOGUE DETAILS FROM THE WORKERS INSTALLING A WORK,ALONG WITH STATEMENTS AND BIOS FROM THE ARTISTS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION.

CIRCA 1995