Contracted Leisure, 2008
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
