After collecting the flyers and seeing peoples reactions to them over the past few weeks, there have been some very interesting outcomes to this intervention. We set out by trying to provide people with the means to reclaim their time through creative means. An act that we hoped would enhance peoples leisure and an be an escape from work.
As we discussed right at the beginning what we wanted to refrain from was an authoritative voice behind it all. We did not want to force people to do anything, as we wanted to show that leisure is a time when you are free to do whatever you want, without any external voice. We wanted to highlight and promote that leisure is a time when you are free to do as you please. This intervention was there to merely provide the means for people to enjoy that right.
However, this intervention highlighted to us that the wasted time, free time or leisure time in our everyday could not be separated from our work time. The idea that we must do something with our free time is an act that we must enjoy the time away from work, but if leisure is just merely a reaction to work is it really leisure? It seems we have to work to ensure that we do have leisure time. We are free to do as we please, but can what ever we do be completely free from the notions of making capital. Is our leisure time just merely an act of 'unpaid labour'?
We wanted to create a space where people could enhance their leisure as a means of escaping from the tribulations of work, but I think we now should see if in fact there is a space that can be created which is entirely free from an agenda of labour all together.
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