Leisure Library is a project started in Spring of 2008. Instigated by our involvement in the Infinite Exchange Gallery at the ZERO1 biennial in San Jose on June 6, 2008, we started compiling a selection of manuals that give instructions for producing a variety of social events and activities (see our related project Field Test). This collection will manifest as a series of Leisure Libraries.
We are contacting producers of art events and activities in hopes of collaborating in the production of these manuals. Our collaboration could take any number of forms with more or less involvement from Hideous Beast: you design and author the manual and we publish it (in print and as a pdf on our website); you provide images and text and we do the design; we use available images and text, write additional text and publish with your approval; or any combination of these approaches.
If you have ideas and would like to add them to the Leisure Library, please contact us!
Leisure Library | Booklet Templates: Letter (8.5×11”) | Tabloid (11×17”)
Iterations:
Infinite Exchange Gallery
ZERO1 biennial in San Jose on June 6, 2008
INTRODUCTION
For our contribution to the Infinite Exchange Gallery at the ZERO1 biennial in San Jose on June 6, 2008, Hideous Beast has compiled a selection of manuals that give instructions for producing a variety of social events. This collection is titled Leisure Library. During the Infinite Exchange Gallery, participants will be given a Leisure Library in exchange for entering a non-binding contractual agreement with Hideous Beast to coordinate and execute an event, or contribute a new manual (found or created) to the series. This initiative is named Contracted Leisure.
This booklet serves as a guide for collaboration with Hideous Beast in addition to the Collaboration Agreement. In order to participate in Contracted Leisure, please read our terms, complete, sign and date the Collaboration Agreement. Below is a set of Guidelines for Performance. Please read carefully.
GUIDELINES FOR PERFORMANCE
In exchange for a printed and packaged version of the Leisure Library, you have a choice to either execute one of the events described in the Leisure Library or contribute a new, found or created manual to the series. If you choose to execute an event, you must submit some form of documentation to Hideous Beast. Documentation can include photographs, videos, drawings, flyers, or written reflections. The Collaboration Agreement is applicable to both choices, with emphasis on the production of social events. These Guidelines for Performance are contingent upon our Collaboration Agreement and should be read as a simplified version of that agreement.
To make this exchange official, you must enter a non-binding contractual agreement with Hideous Beast. You have one year from the date of the signed Collaboration Agreement to complete the terms of the contract. Hideous Beast will assist in any way possible in the completion of the agreement. This may include, but is not limited to helping with technical issues, offering advice, promotion, and emotional support.
This contract will be made public in attempt to ensure a less passive exchange between Hideous Beast and the Collaborator. Some strategies will include a public announcement at the event as the contract is being presented; photographic documentation (photo, video, eye witness) of the signing and completion of the agreement; a list of potential go-to persons in case of emergency (people who might hold participants accountable), all of which will become public via our site dedicated to the project(s).
As of June 3, 2008 the Leisure Library consists of:
- Mini Movie Fest User Guide
- Mini Movie Fest Workshop User Guide
- Mini Cine Instructional Guide
- Field Test: SHOP
- Field Test: Product Placements
- Pinata Party
- DRAWtime
- SWEATtime/JUICEtime
- Show and Tell
- Laundromat Lecture Series – Red76
- Open Media Studio: FREE ART
- MEDIAreport
- A Manual of Bent Instructions – Forays
- PowerPoint Extreme
Leisure Library (Contracted Leisure) booklet*
Talking With Your Mouth Full: New Language for Socially Engaged Art
A ThreeWalls Symposium
Saturday July 12, and Sunday July 13, 2008
Saturday July 12, 2008 // 1:00 PM
Panel discussion with Lori Waxman, Claire Pentecost and Carrie
Lambert-Beatty. Moderated by Huey Copeland.
Sunday July 13, 2008 // 1:00 – 5:00 PM
Small Publications Book Fair with local publications by The Green
Lantern Press, InCUBATE, AREA Chicago, Lumpen, The Golden Age, People
Powered, Temporary Services, Hideous Beast, and Bert Stabler.
InCUBATE will host Sunday Soup at ThreeWalls.
(incubate-chicago,org/sundaysoup)
3:00 PM
Artist Talk by SOLO Artists: Material Exchange
The more art slides between convention and social action, sculpture and public performance, art and the everyday, the more complicated it is to talk about. As socially engaged art rides the boundaries of
multiple subjects simultaneously, historians, critics, and other artists must develop multifaceted responses. To discuss projects that include a broad and unfolding web of topics such as art, racial
politics, and gender is to speak in many voices all at the same time. The aim of Talking with Your Mouth Full is to contribute language to the critical framework for these projects in an effort to refine
discussions around socially engaged art.
A companion publication featuring new work from panelists, will be available at each event. Published in collaboration with The Green Lantern Press.
Much like our Contracted Leisure, 2008 our contribution to the JOAAP’s Pamphleteer project during the fair asks that in lieu of monetary payment, we ask that anyone who takes a Leisure Library sign a contract to provide Hideous Beast with either documentation of a Leisure Library event they’ve hosted or contribute a proposal for a new manual to be added toLeisure Library.
We sent 10 copies of our Leisure Library to the fair. Here are some participants:
As of June 3, 2008 the Leisure Library consists of:
Mini Movie Fest*
Mini Movie Fest Workshop*
Mini Movie Fest Mini Cine*
Field Test: Product Placement (Temporary Service)*
Field Test: Shop (N55)*
Piñata Party*
DRAWtime*
Laundry Lecture Series (Red76)*
A Manual of Bent Instructions (Forays)*
Sunday Soup Granting Program at InCUBATE*
PowerPoint Extreme*
SWEATtime*
MEDIAreport*
Show and Tell*
Open Media Studio: FREE ART*
