Studio Diary No.1 | PDF

AUC_18_0002DGTL

Price : 5.5 GBP

NEW RELEASE | PDF Download Version

A long-form essay with original imagery accompanied by selected things-of-interest, the Studio Diary offers discourse from the POV of the London-based, Trinidadian contemporary artist, Lisa-Marie Harris. Delivered in a slimline zine format, each diary release - like an occasional, printed newsletter - will tease apart a single issue relevant to artistic inquiry, art practice, and living.

"We Need a Break, Too" interrogates what Harris calls the 'economies of exhaustion' and how it tokenizes labour and glorifies hustle culture like a badge of honour, whilst placing the basic need for rest, care and relaxation far beyond the reaches of the collective 'we.'

The essay asks: who exactly comprises this 'we' and why are they denied the right to a break?

How does finding rest become a problem when such a person is also an artist whose creative output often requires them to consistently engage with - and embody - their struggles in order to virtue signal a kind of social responsibility? And how do 'the others' benefit from such actions?

The Studio Diary is copletely advertsing free, artist funded, and studio-produced in limited print runs, by demand.

Studio Diary No.1

PDF Download

Email delivery after purchase

Limited download access

Viewable on any device

Full Colour

54 Pages

Advertising free

Released Sept. 2024