Shift/Work

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop presents Shift/Work, a workshop running between 30th July and 7th August 2011.

Neil Mulholland, will work with the three artists to devise a rota-based curriculum that draws attention to the workshop as a convivial means of production and distribution. These artists will be invited to exploit ESW’s resources to assist twelve invited participants in their learning through on-the-job training.

Each intensive two-day workshop will be an isolated shift, the artist and participants having no detailed knowledge of the other workshops in the cycle. The twelve participants will continue to attend ESW during the two-day unsupervised shifts between the workshops. A four-on two-off shift pattern of working will ensure that productivity levels are maximised over the period of the project. Only the twelve participants will have a holistic view of the entire process and will be in a unique position to put it to work (or not).
At the end of the two-week shift cycle there will be a public finissage: 7th August from 6pm.

The legacy of Shift/Work will be a publication, a user’s manual combining the curriculae with related images, illustrations and essays. In the future, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop will invite other workshop-based organisations to use this manual for the implementation of related projects.