Machine Project book launch for Julia Bryan-Wilson's ART WORKERS: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era

On the week of the University of California Faculty walkout, the Journal editorial collective is proud to participate in;

Event Launch: Saturday September 26 • 8:00 p.m. Machine Project Los Angeles CA http://machineproject.com/events/2009/09/26/jbw-book-release/

The event will include a reading by Julia and work related music by DJ George Baker. Current and former Journal editors will lead a performative reading of Lee Lozano's Art Worker's Manifesto.

"During the late 1960s and early 1970s, in response to the political turbulence generated by the Vietnam War, an important group of American artists and critics sought to expand the definition of creative labor by identifying themselves as “art workers.” In the first book to examine this movement, Julia Bryan-Wilson shows how a polemical redefinition of artistic labor played a central role in minimalism, process art, feminist criticism, and conceptualism. "

Frequent Journal contributor Gregory Sholette's review of Julia Bryan-Wilson's book; http://bookforum.com/inprint/016_03/4324

Kirsten Forkert's Art Worker's project and Issue 5 article; The Art Worker's Coalition (revisited); http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/5/articles/forkert.htm

Performances documentation from a performative reading of Lee Lozano's manifesto done at Southern Exposure Gallery in San Francisco: May 2007 http://www.joaap.org/other/soex/soex.html

interview with the contemporary W.A.G.E collective's work around art labor http://blog.art21.org/2009/04/27/wage-against-the-machine/