Reader/Scribes

Fixed shifts

Shift Type:

Weekly

Occurrence:

every week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday until April 26, 2015

Commitment Time:

Volunteers Need Per Day:

No limit

Skills:

Reading, Writing/Reporting

Location:

15th Ave NE & 41st St, Seattle,
Washington, 98195

As a part of the Henry’s exhibition Ann Hamilton: the common S E N S E, we invite you to become a reader/scribe. Read out loud in the galleries while transcribing selections of text from a project book. These joined processes of reading and transcribing are an address to the animals—represented in images and materially present in the cultural artifacts on display.

Over the duration of the exhibition, reader/scribes will form an ongoing presence that gives the often silent and solitary act of reading sociability. Although reading at different times of day and from different pages, individual reader/scribes are connected to each other through the reading and transcribing from a shared text. Each book and scribe log will accumulate the marks of individual reader/scribes to become a physical record of the collective activity. Review the READER/SCRIBE Manual for a more detailed dscription.

Current book: Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda

Please read, sign, and return this form to [email protected] before your first shift.

Questions? Or, want to schedule a group larger than twenty. Please email Erin Bailey at [email protected].

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Shift Type: Weekly

Occurrence: every week on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday until April 26, 2015

Commitment Time:Sunday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Sunday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Sunday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Sunday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Sunday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Wednesday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Wednesday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Wednesday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Wednesday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Thursday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Thursday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Thursday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Thursday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Thursday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Thursday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Thursday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Thursday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Thursday 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Friday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Friday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Friday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Friday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Friday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM, Friday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Friday 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM, Friday 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Friday 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM, Friday 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM, Saturday 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Saturday 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM, Saturday 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM, Saturday 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM, Saturday 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Volunteers Needed Per Shift: No limit

Skills: Reading, Writing/Reporting

Current book: Death in Spring by Merce Rodoreda

Please read, sign, and return this form to [email protected] before your first shift.

Questions? Or, want to schedule a group larger than twenty. Please email Erin Bailey at [email protected].

Ann Hamilton: the common S E N S E Reader/Scribes

"Ann Hamilton: the common S E N S E" (http://www.henryart.org/exhibitions/ann-hamilton-the-common-sense) is a museum-wide exhibition of newly commissioned works by the internationally renowned artist. With materials and representations of animals gathered from University of Washington collections, the project invites us to think about the relationship between human and non-human animals and the possibility of addressing our closeness, our distance, and our imagined and physical dependence on each other. Asking questions about multiple forms of knowledge, Hamilton turned to the university’s sites of knowledge creation and memory—the Henry, the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and the University Libraries Special Collections. Fur, feather, and gut garments, as well as scientific specimens and books such as bestiaries and children’s ABC primers from these collections have become the physical threads of her Henry exhibition. Together they create an experience that the artist describes as an elegiac accounting of the finitude and threatened extinctions we share across species—“a lacrimosa for a future being lost.” The exhibition title, "the common S E N S E," references Greek philosopher Aristotle’s proposition in "Historia Animalium" and "De Anima" that “touch” is the sense common to all animal species. Long-interested in the qualities of felt experience, Hamilton invites us to consider touch in its tangible and intangible forms: touch as physical contact, as embodied knowing, and as a form of intellectual and emotional recognition. Low-frequency tones created by mechanized bullroarers (an ancient instrument used to call or signal across distances, and often to gather people together), the texture of newsprint in the hand, words spoken intimately by readers throughout the galleries, and voices singing to the artifacts on view, are among the diverse forms of touch explored by the artist.

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