Bread and Roses 101 was a project performed on July 17,19, 20 & 23, 2009 at The University of Trash at the Sculpture Center in New York created by Michael Cataldi and Nils Norman. Elena Bajo and Jon Cuyson created and performed within The University of Trash a temporary and mobile site composed of one table and some found chairs. From 11 am to 6 pm of each of the four days of the Workshop, both artists talked, listened, imagined, negotiated and acted with the participants for one hour individually. Each one was asked to schedule ahead online and was asked to submit a description of what he or she wanted to do within the specific hour.
Bread and Roses 101 was a series of one on one discussion that aimed to explore, imagine and implement new forms of protest by creating actions and strategies, while negotiating the production of space and consumption of time by incorporating leisure as a way of resistance. The project title was borrowed from a slogan that was used during a women’s textile workers strike that occurred in Massachusetts in 1912 “give us bread, but give us also roses”, and served as the starting point for this project. The following are the names of the participants and their self titled activities.
July 17 Mark Tribe - Conversation/ Derive
July 19 Shinsuke Aso - Situationistic Chatting
Cathy Lebowitz - Derive on Propaganda
Noam Londy - Did We Stop Time?
Lisa Sigal - Delineation
July 21 Gracie de Vito - Non-Productive Research
Quechua Couture - Being Present
Murad Mumtaz - Getting Lost & Classical Guitar Playing
July 23 Lindsay Benedict - Reorganizations of Questions
Brainard Carey - Omniscient Observer
Jordi Sanjo - Floating Concrete Conversation
Liana Gimenez - Floating Concrete Conversation
