Invitation
to participate in a ritual celebration to join some
Forgotten Products of Labor
at the Albany Bulb
Monday, September 2 (Labor Day)
5.30-7.30pm (sunset); Meet at the Parking Lot Toilets at 5.15pm
1 Buchanan Street, Albany
You are invited to join archaeologists, artists, and other observers of time, home, and waste in an intimate 2-hour ritual to place rubble from a distant time and place amidst the more recent rubble at the Albany Bulb. We will bring 6000-year old burned house rubble from an archaeological site in Serbia to rest alongside 100-year old bricks at the Albany Bulb. Through procession we will bring a historical sensibility to these materials and re-enact their life histories. Ritual gesture and oration will enliven the many lives of these materials and their makers and ritual deposition will weave together the Bulb’s past life as landfill and homestead with the Serbian rubble's past life in home and ruin.
This gathering is conceived and organized by Ruth Tringham and Annie Danis with the help of Susan Moffat and Love the Bulb. Annie Danis is an artist and researcher who explores landscapes of inequality through art and archaeology. Ruth Tringham is an archaeologist who focuses on Neolithic households and creating intimate stories about them. Susan Moffat is an urbanist and curator who observes human and other natures in public space.