A Very Beautiful Laundromat and Artist-Led Economy
A Very Beautiful Laundromat
www.averybeautifullandromat.com
About me
Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary artist and independent scholar working
across site, community engagement, and performative interventions through
artist led activity and philosophy. Her work is bound up in mimetic strategies
and the playful occupation of non-art fields such as urban planning,
economics, and housing, particularly where it concerns the behaviour of cities
and the rise of the creative entrepreneur and finance capitalism. She has
previously worked in the role of Festival Director (Gang Festival), Associate
Director (Performance Space); Provocateur (Splendid Arts Lab & Artist Wants a
Life) and has been the co-founder and co-director of two artist run spaces in
Sydney, The Wedding Circle and Bill+George. She recieved her PhD in 2007
(University of Newcastle, Dept Drama/Conservatorium) Exploring oppositional
performance practice in Post Suharto Indonesia.
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Dating an
Economist
datinganeconomist.tumblr.com
Walking to the
Laundromat
www.walkinglab.org
Iron Lady
www.theactualironlady.tumblr.com/
Feast and Famine
Economy
postfordism +
artist labour
domestic +
gendered +
ordinary labour
Artist-led economy
Why a Laundromat?
The enduring idea - you will always need washing
The commoning of what is essential domestic labour
Socialising hub - Hang out space -
Diversifying use of space - dual function of
ordinary/extraordinary
Diversifying the main occupation of the artist - no longer
exclusively just an artist
Art making is part of the mundane + ordinary everyday
The 247 use of space/building license
Putting artists in contact with an atypical audience and
vice versa
Money Laundering
A business model
6 months of R&D
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Governance models
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Finance arrangements
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Building Compliance
A Very Beautiful Laundromat
www.averybeautifullandromat.com
Pay my respects to the traditonal custodians of the land the gadigal people of the eora nation - and pay my respexcts to the elders both past and present.
Hi I am here to talk about an artist project that I am working on called A Very Beautiful Laundromat. This is the website if you want to check it out.
Curatorial platform exploring the intersection of art and economy through artist-led interventions, with a focus on the significance of domestic labor and the evolution of artistic practice. Features interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Conroy and the concept of commoning essential domestic tasks. The laundromat serves as a social hub and creative space reshaping the role of artists in everyday life.
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A Very Beautiful Laundromat www.averybeautifullandromat.com
About me Rebecca Conroy is an interdisciplinary artist and independent scholar working across site, community engagement, and performative interventions through artist led activity and philosophy. Her work is bound up in mimetic strategies and the playful occupation of non-art fields such as urban planning, economics, and housing, particularly where it concerns the behaviour of cities and the rise of the creative entrepreneur and finance capitalism. She has previously worked in the role of Festival Director (Gang Festival), Associate Director (Performance Space); Provocateur (Splendid Arts Lab & Artist Wants a Life) and has been the co-founder and co-director of two artist run spaces in Sydney, The Wedding Circle and Bill+George. She recieved her PhD in 2007 (University of Newcastle, Dept Drama/Conservatorium) Exploring oppositional performance practice in Post Suharto Indonesia.
A Very Beautiful Laundromat is a curatorial platform and project- machine for expanded practice at the intersection of art and economy. Between 2016-2018 it will develop and present a number of public iterations as artist-led responses to doing economy differently.
Dating an Economist datinganeconomist.tumblr.com
Walking to the Laundromat www.walkinglab.org
Iron Lady www.theactualironlady.tumblr.com/
Feast and Famine Economy
postfordism + artist labour
domestic + gendered + ordinary labour
Why a Laundromat? The enduring idea - you will always need washing The commoning of what is essential domestic labour Socialising hub - Hang out space - Diversifying use of space - dual function of ordinary/extraordinary Diversifying the main occupation of the artist - no longer exclusively just an artist Art making is part of the mundane + ordinary everyday
6 months of R&D - Governance models Money Laundering - Finance arrangements - Building Compliance A business model
A Very Beautiful Laundromat www.averybeautifullandromat.com
