American Labor Union Mixtapes: Art Worker’s Party
On May 1st, 2015, artists Carmen Denison and John Knight hosted their Art Worker’s Party to launch the first iteration of their collaborative project, The American Labor Union Mixtapes.
The event took place at HQHQ Project Space, 232 SE Oak St., Portland, OR, U.S.A., 97214, and organized for CENTRAL’s informal symposium, Peripheral to What?.
Denison and Knight have been developing this project focusing on themes of labor and distribution, collectivism, educational “cells” and literacy, proletariat aesthetics, and nostalgia, lament and metaphor.
The Art Worker’s Party on Mayday 2015 was an intimate gathering point where visitors shared wine, picked up their copy of Denison and Knight’s publication, and listened to Volume 1. of the American Labor Union Mixtapes.
Each copy of the zine is unique, with a different front and back cover image, and came with a CD-ROM of the mixtape.
Thank you to Carmen Denison, John Knight, Taryn Tomasello and HQHQ Project Space for making this launch party so successful!