After spending some quality “Play Time” in the first half of this year, LEAP’s Fall/Winter 2024 issue is clocking in and getting back to “Work Time.” How does the work we do affect our perception of time? How are the various types of labor in the art industry recognized and defined? How much invisible work often goes unnoticed? How did we arrive at the current language for defining and classifying work? And most importantly, how do we see and support workers in vulnerable positions? LEAP’s Fall/Winter issue discusses work, in all seriousness, alongside the work of artists and researchers. In this issue, readers will encounter drastically different experiences, perceptions, and ideas of labor. Meanwhile, between “Work Time,” LEAP invites readers to slack off a bit with us and check out the various proposals from artists on how to liberate ourselves from the cycles of the daily grind.
Contents
Chinese Workers in Non-fiction Cinema
Text by Noeng Naz
But heard, half-heard
Project by Han Qian
Slack Time
Project by Chen Ruofan
The Worker Poet Xiaohai
Interview by Ge Yulu
The Poetry of Five Workers
Poems by Xiaohai, Wu Xia, Chen Zhongming, Meng Yu, and Wang Jibing
Slack Time
Project by Jun Zhang
Workers
Project by Dong Jinling
Slack Time
Project by Wang Buke
Art Workers in the Art Worlds
Text by Duan Qiuchen
Work Gestures
Project by Lishuang Xu
Slack Time
Project by R7
Zheng Que: “Foot Massage” and “Factory Girl”
Interview by Nie Xiaoyi
Slack Time
Project by Lu Ran
Hands in Labor
Picked by Liang Hao
Slack Time
Project by Ying Liu
Body and Illness in Zhang Peili’s Work
Text by Wu Jianan
The Yangshupu Power Plant
Project by Feng Fangyu
Slack Time
Project by Tingwei Li
Reading Yokohama Triennale 2024 “Wild Grass: Our Lives”
Text by Huang Chien-hung