There is a feature in the May 2011 issue of OnOffice magazine:
http://www.onofficemagazine.com/back-issues
[see p89-91]
I’ve also scanned it and posted it on my blog
OnOffice magazine feature
film of the Work/Work & Black Weekend launch party
Photographs of Dominic Bradnum’s Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000 - August 2006.
Additional photos can be viewed on Dominic’s own blog »
Exhibition preview in Le Cool London
The exhibition has been previewed in Le Cool London this week.
Johanna Derry said
Bread and butter versus heart and soul. That’s how a photographer once described the nature of their work to me. A balancing act between the need to earn money to live against the reason to live: the fulfillment of individual and thoughtful creative expression. Most artists do not enjoy acclaim and financial backing, and juggle paying the bills with producing their work. Work/work is a research exhibition that takes this balancing act as the theme and source. A collective of contributing artists – Dominic Bradnum, Pippa Koszerek, Sam Curtis and Olga Hoffman – will show their own explorations of making work in and around worktime, including art on post-it notes, art as Gantt charts, and a host of other not- quite-your-normal-desk-job ideas.
Work / Work
A Research Exhibition
OPENING NIGHT - Thursday 3rd March, 6pm - 9pm
at Lo & Behold Gallery, 2b Swanfield St, London, E2 7DS
Photos documenting day 2 of the 19 hour installation process of Notes To Self: Stolen Time, March 2000 - August 2006 by Dominic Bradnum.
The piece is made up of approximately 1,966 post-it note “artworks” created during full-time employment between 2000 and 2006.
The Precarious Workers Brigade
http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=1&subCat=docdetail&&id=258
Free of chargeSUNDAY 6 March, 1-5pm
no.w.here
316-318 Bethnal Green Road
E20AG
www.no-w-here.org.uk
Join a growing group of precarious people for two afternoons of collective storytelling, film screenings, survival strategies and mutual support. These sessions are hosted in preparation for a public Participatory Peoples Tribunal on Precarity to be held in late March. Bring your evidence and anecdotes.
(left handed) Note To Self: no. 1697
Notes from Dominic’s Presentation of Ideas, 12th January
Dominic introduced his work - the series of almost 2,000 post-it notes drawn and written on during his years working in an office. We discussed the various possible ways of hanging the collection, avoiding any damage to the notes, and keeping the format of the presentation regular and neat. Not all of the post-it notes are the same size, so this will have to be allowed for in the layout. Dominic has been preparing tests for display methods, as documented below. He proposes hanging the notes in panels, rather than one large block, in order to encourage the viewer to ‘read’ them line by line, in the right order, to maintain the narrative aspect of the work and its development.
We measured the gallery space in order to plan the layout of the work, and approx wall areas are:
Clockwise, starting from the main door (from the bar / reception area)
Wall 1 length 225cm, height 290cm + an alcove length 250cm, height 250cm.
Wall 2 to rear doorway: length 408cm, height 290cm
Wall 3 (largest opp. main door): length 7m, height 290cm
Wall 4 (has radiator halfway): length 4m24, height 290cm
It’s likely at the moment that Dominic’s work will need the biggest wall (3), and that Sam and Pippa’s work should be opposite each other rather than next to, as they’re both text based. Olga’s work would then appear opposite Dominic’s, on wall 1.
We talked about whether we would feel comfortable inviting employers and colleagues to the exhibition opening, or whether that could pose a risk to the work, or the relationships. For some of use, it would seem to be a positive thing to invite colleagues, to show them ours lives outside of day jobs - our ‘real’ selves, as some of us consider it. For others, there’s a risk that the exhibition could be misunderstood, disapproved of, or perhaps expose some of the carefully constructed facade we use in the office.
(fabricated) note to self: WORK/WORK
