LEAP F/W 2024 WORK TIME

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