Le Chauffage #3: Day Job
with an introduction by editor Emile Rubino and a reading by Dan Miller at 6.30pm
Thursday February 20, 6pm
The third issue of Le Chauffage is an inquiry into the relationship between the practices of artists / writers and their day jobs. This subject stems from a question fundamental to the existing mandate of Le Chauffage: ‘how do you keep warm?’ and subsequently, ‘how do you pay the bills?’ As these perennial concerns occupy our everyday lives, we ask artists/writers to consider the influence that their day jobs, side hustles, creative or non-creative forms of employment have on their respective practices. This issue tries to account for the significant ways in which complex economic realities come to shape the art we produce, look at, and discuss. How do we deal with limited time and resources? How do we reclaim and steal time back? How do our day jobs shape and in influence what we make? How do we subvert the
means of production of the workplace? Can the constraint of a day job also be a way to alleviate the pressure of professionalizing?
With contributions by Daniel Bozhkov, Nathan Crompton, Pippa Garner, Chauncey Hare, Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Garrett Lockhart, Jannis Marwitz, Reba Maybury, Tiziana La Melia, Dan Miller, Ragen Moss, Jean-Luc Moulène, Jean Katambayi Mukendi, Paul Niedermayer, Sophie Nys, Megan Plunkett, Chris Reinecke, Jacquelyn Zong-Li Ross, Margaux Schwarz, Eleanor Ivory Weber, James Welling. WERKER and The Wig.
Le Chauffage is an artist-run publication based in Brussels and Vancouver. Conceived as a cross- continental, community oriented platform, Le Chauffage brings together the work and writing of artists/ friends from different cities with the intent to spark discussion and fuel casual forms of critical discourse.
