EXHIBITION >>>
PUNCHCARD ECONOMY: 8 HOURS LABOUR
part of Que restera-t-il ?
16 Jan 2025 > 2 Mar 2025 @ Le Liv Art, Montreal, CA
PERFORMANCE >>> 16 Jan 2025 10am - 7pm
LIVE STREAM @ https://www.youtube.com/@videosmithery/live
For the second time I will be performing a new version of my '8 Hours Labour' work in January as part of Que restera-t-il ? - an exhibition on material traces at Le Liv Art, Montreal, curated by Dounia Bouzidi and Joseph Rozenkopf. Once again, My contribution will simply be my 'work' - 8 hours of knitting on a brother punchcard machine, as an attempt to move focus away from the art object and towards the act of artistic labour.
Que restera-t-il ? is an exhibition that questions the temporality of creation, the appropriation of material and the traces left by artists. .
Fortuitously, the vernissage / opening of this show in takes place at the same time as the finnisage / closing of the previous exhibition of the work in Kunsthaus Graz, Austria, as part of 24/7 Work between meaning and imbalance. My performance in Montreal will be live streamed back to GRaz and displayed in the bar. Are they are getting an extra days work for free? I'm not sure, but I'm really pleased that the project can close in this manner.
The full list of exhibiting artists:
Awa, Sophia Borowska, Charlotte Caron, Fanny-Jane, Poline Harbali, Sam Meech, Marwan Sekkat, Valentine Sbriglior
website: https://lelivart.com/en/exhibition/que-restera-t-il/
