Work Party for Cheats

Dates: Sun 4 May
Times: 2pm - 4.15pm
Duration: 2 hours 15mins
Age guidance: TBC
Pay What You Decide: £5 suggested donation
Venue: Orbis Community West Street, Unit 9, Interchange Centre, West Street, Gateshead, NE8 1BH

Work Party for Cheats is a communal space for getting the stuff done that you just can’t get done. In just over two hours we will endeavour to resolve as many unfinished tasks as we can, using all the skills and energy in the room to swap, steal and cheat our way out of our stuckness. Because doing other people’s work is easier than doing your own work, and collective satisfaction is better than individual smuggery.

To take part, please bring with you an unfinished or unresolved task, along with anything you think might be useful in resolving it. Feel free to bring something even if you think it’s impossible to be solved by collective cheating.

In previous Work Parties, participants have done the following tasks for each other: proofread, written budgets, written to pen pals, finished a painting, made a birthday card, given feedback on a novel, toilet trained a puppy, researched impenetrable jargon, shortlisted applications, come up with fundraising ideas, fixed a website, learned about human skin cells, and much more.

“I want to come back and do it again and again and again” - Participant feedback.

Artist biography:

Art Business Ltd is an art business, project and performance by the Bristol-based artist [formerly known as Sole Trader] Rachael Clerke. Rachael makes artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life ‘should’ look like.

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Artist website:
https://rachaelclerke.com
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Credits:
Lead artist: Rachael Clerke

Supported by:
Development supported by Old Diorama Arts Centre.