07/12/2022
1:00 pm - 3:45 pm
Work Party for Cheats is a playful communal space for getting the stuff done that we just can’t get done. Each partygoer brings a task that has defeated them.
Arrive at 1pm to have a FREE LUNCH together first. Then the Work Party will start at 1.30pm
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. This could be something that you can’t do because you don’t have the skills or don’t have time, or something you are just avoiding because it’s boring or complicated. 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
Work Party for cheats is hosted by artist Rachael Clerke, assisted by alter-egos Rach (admin support), Ray (logistics) and Roy (unhelpful).
Rachael Clerke is a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. They make 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. Rachael is part of Interval, a collective of artists sharing space and resources above St Nicholas market in Bristol.
Photos of a previous Work Party for Cheats taken by Matt Ogston. Portrait of Rachael by Ruby Turner.
