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A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone
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A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone
Publisher Impractical Labor (ILSSA)
Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative tools and resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response. The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020, requesting submissions to this book “A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone.” The book seeks “to document your activities, questions, challenges, suggestions, strategies, remote collaborations, invitations, reading lists, priorities, boundaries, and social distance projects. How has the Coronavirus / social distancing / shelter-in-place / remote everything affected your practice? What are you reading, and/or what do you hope to start soon? What new resources have you found? What are you trying?” ILSSA members' submissions from across the USA (and a handful around the world) are organized chronologically, color coded by weekday. Risograph printed, forthcoming fall 2020.
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Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative tools and resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response. The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020, requesting submissions to this book “A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone.” The book seeks “to document your activities, questions, challenges, suggestions, strategies, remote collaborations, invitations, reading lists, priorities, boundaries, and social distance projects. How has the Coronavirus / social distancing / shelter-in-place / remote everything affected your practice? What are you reading, and/or what do you hope to start soon? What new resources have you found? What are you trying?” ILSSA members' submissions from across the USA (and a handful around the world) are organized chronologically, color coded by weekday. Risograph printed, forthcoming fall 2020.
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ILSSA News Bulletin
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ILSSA News Bulletin
Publisher Impractical Labor (ILSSA)
Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response.The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020: "Regardless of our personal situations, we find ourselves disconnected from our usual patterns, habits, interactions, assumptions, routines, and faced with new ways of being, doing, and making. Some of us find ourselves aboslutely exhausted. Some of us wonder about other modes, possibilities, potentials. What have we been doing, that has gotten us here to now? How can we choose differently and contribute to something otherwise?" The publication seeks submissions for two forthcoming projects: "A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone" seeks to document the experiences of impractical laborers during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine, and "Surveying the State of the 2nd ILSSA Union" requests impractical laborers to self-assess their working conditions as artists using a rubric borrowed from sociology. Printed risograph & letterpress, hand folded, stamped, & signed.
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Author Emily Larned & Bridget Elmer
Impractical Labor (ILSSA) is a union for reflective creative practice. As a union for artists and makers of all kinds, ILSSA focuses on improving the immaterial working conditions of our members. ILSSA publishes contemplative resources and organizes participatory projects, exhibitions, and events. ILSSA publications typically take the form of a call-and-response.The "ILSSA News Bulletin," a letter and leaflet/poster, was mailed to current members on March 21, 2020: "Regardless of our personal situations, we find ourselves disconnected from our usual patterns, habits, interactions, assumptions, routines, and faced with new ways of being, doing, and making. Some of us find ourselves aboslutely exhausted. Some of us wonder about other modes, possibilities, potentials. What have we been doing, that has gotten us here to now? How can we choose differently and contribute to something otherwise?" The publication seeks submissions for two forthcoming projects: "A Trying Time: An ILSSA Quaranzine for Working Together, Alone" seeks to document the experiences of impractical laborers during the early days of COVID-19 quarantine, and "Surveying the State of the 2nd ILSSA Union" requests impractical laborers to self-assess their working conditions as artists using a rubric borrowed from sociology. Printed risograph & letterpress, hand folded, stamped, & signed.
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Quarantzine
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Quarantzine
Publisher Lunes Studio
Author Lunes Studio
Quarantzine is a zine sharing quarantine stories from people around the world in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking with family and friends all over the world, it has been fascinating to hear how varied experiences of lockdown are, and so we wanted to document people's perspectives to highlight that there is no right or wrong or normal way to deal with quarantine In issue #1, those we hear from include a teacher in New York City, delivering personal protective equipment to frontline workers in her community and a photographer in Kuwait who is shooting from his window. Issue #2 features a cruise ship member stuck at sea between Miami and Orlando who volunteers to DJ as colleagues watch from their balconies and a food explorer in Canada learning food techniques she previously did not have the courage to try. Quarantzine was created remotely and interviews were conducted via email, video call and social media. All photos were submitted by contributors, who were given an open brief to share snapshots of their quarantine experience. Gemma Suyat - Co-Founder of Lunes Studio and Editor of Quarantzine
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Author Lunes Studio
Quarantzine is a zine sharing quarantine stories from people around the world in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Speaking with family and friends all over the world, it has been fascinating to hear how varied experiences of lockdown are, and so we wanted to document people's perspectives to highlight that there is no right or wrong or normal way to deal with quarantine In issue #1, those we hear from include a teacher in New York City, delivering personal protective equipment to frontline workers in her community and a photographer in Kuwait who is shooting from his window. Issue #2 features a cruise ship member stuck at sea between Miami and Orlando who volunteers to DJ as colleagues watch from their balconies and a food explorer in Canada learning food techniques she previously did not have the courage to try. Quarantzine was created remotely and interviews were conducted via email, video call and social media. All photos were submitted by contributors, who were given an open brief to share snapshots of their quarantine experience. Gemma Suyat - Co-Founder of Lunes Studio and Editor of Quarantzine
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Ways to pass time inside this room この部屋での 時間のつぶし方
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Ways to pass time inside this room この部屋での 時間のつぶし方
Publisher Laurel Schwulst
Author Words by Laurel Schwulst and Webb Allen ローレルシュウルストとウェッブアレンの言葉
This publication explores ways to pass time in a room. While it was made before COVID hit, it feels especially relevant now. It was inspired by and goes along with Laurel Schwulst's app "Flight Simulator," in which users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. Now that flying is no longer encouraged do the the pandemic, the app is also strangely more useful now as well. Critic Brian Sholis has written about this on their blog: https://sholis.com/blog/on-flying-with-my-son-while-we-re-stuck-at-home. The publication is written in English and translated into Japanese because it was begun at pe hu creative community space in Osaka, Japan, and had an exhibition there as well: http://vg.pe.hu/2f/greenpeople.html
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Author Words by Laurel Schwulst and Webb Allen ローレルシュウルストとウェッブアレンの言葉
This publication explores ways to pass time in a room. While it was made before COVID hit, it feels especially relevant now. It was inspired by and goes along with Laurel Schwulst's app "Flight Simulator," in which users put their phone in airplane mode for the duration of a real flight in order to "travel" to this location and earn pins for each airport visited. Now that flying is no longer encouraged do the the pandemic, the app is also strangely more useful now as well. Critic Brian Sholis has written about this on their blog: https://sholis.com/blog/on-flying-with-my-son-while-we-re-stuck-at-home. The publication is written in English and translated into Japanese because it was begun at pe hu creative community space in Osaka, Japan, and had an exhibition there as well: http://vg.pe.hu/2f/greenpeople.html
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Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
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Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis
Publisher Queer.Archive.Work
Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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Author Paul Soulellis, editor
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis began with a 10-day open call that was announced on March 18, 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The call for work was motivated by two desires: 1—to collectively document some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine, and 2—to provide some relief to artists and writers impacted by the crisis, in both creative and monetary forms. How might publishing as artistic practice embody communal care? More than 100 artists and writers submitted work, mostly generated during quarantine. Contributors were compensated a total of $2,295, using funds from a 2020 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts grant, plus an anonymous donation. 65 of the 110 contributors donated their share of the compensation back to the pool, resulting in 45 contributors each receiving a stipend of $51. An edition of 25 copies of Urgency Reader 2 was printed and assembled at Queer.Archive.Work during the first week of April 2020. A high-quality scan of the printed edition is available for free download (see below). Physical copies of the reader have been permanently placed in our library for future visitors
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