Poet's Security Force: Unpaid Shift Work

Courtesy of The Feminist Economics Department (the FED)

Saturday, July 20, 12:00-4:00pm

At EFA Project Space, 323 West 39th St, 2nd Floor

This event is part of Empathy Corporation, a presentation of A Blade of Grass and EFA Project Space's project The Hive, a platform for socially engaged art practices, featuring projects that expand the boundaries of art by seeking new ways to integrate into real life experience. 

A deeper debt is created as a social bond in which there is no creditor.  New truths are produced through the interaction of singularities being together.  A real security is forged by those no longer bound in fear.

-Hardt and Negri 2012

On Saturday, July 20th, join the Poets' Security Force for an afternoon of unpaid security work. Our security guard/poets have done the hard work of using poetry as a weapon to create real security-- amongst each other and inside the security industry. This day will function like an orientation, as well as work. Come do the work of redefining the meaning of security for yourself.  

At noon we will begin shift work, which involves a lecture about the history of the security industry, a map of what is protected in NYC, and a chance to define and protect something that has been left vulnerable in a highly securitized city.

Please come prepared with these two items:

- Attire: white shirt, comfortable black pants and shoes

- A description of what "security" is to you

If you would like to also bring some form of poiesis that relates to any aspect of securitization, please feel free to do so and there will be an opportunity to share your work within a collective setting.

RSVP to byron@poetsecurity.net. For a copy of the manual, and future job opportunities, contact:opportunities@poetsecurity.net.

*statistic from NYS Department of Labor http://labor.ny.gov/stats/lswage2.asp#33-0000