Reading and Performance with Leah Sandler
September 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Notes from the Archivist
Notes from the Archivist, a collection of fragmented writings and photographs, is a parafictional dérive through the sensory landscape of declining coastal Central Florida’s Late Capitalist spectacle from the perspective of the Archivist of the Center For Post-Capitalist History. The second publication project of the Center For Post-Capitalist History by artist and writer Leah Sandler, Notes From the Archivist chronicles the Archivist’s attempt to log shifting scales of time through accretions of daily life in the form of journal entries, memorandums, manifestos and photographs.
A Field Guide to Embodied Archiving
The Center for Post-Capitalist History invites you to consider your own body and subjectivity in relation to the writing of history. As a field guide, this publication has a goal of helping you identify your own body as a valuable archive of information. Through this process, your body-archive reveals inconsistencies between Capitalism’s promises of infinite progress and the reality of the unsustainable and destructive nature inherent in its systems of production.
A Field Guide to Embodied Archiving will be available for purchase after the performance.
Leah Sandler (born 1992) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and educator based in Central Florida. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Rollins College in 2014 and a Master of Fine Arts from University of the Arts Philadelphia in 2017, and currently teaches video and photography at Stetson University. Recent exhibitions include CPCH TV (a solo exhibition at the South Bend Museum of Art), Quarter Life Crisis! (a 2-person exhibition at the Casselberry Sculpture House), Body Acclimation Strategies (a solo exhibition at Touche Boutique Miami), and CPCH Staging Area (a solo exhibition at Laundromat Art Space Miami). Sandler’s writing and projects have been featured in publications including Burrow Press Review, Locust Projects: A Closer Look, Textur Magazin, Salat Magazin, SPECS Journal, and Mapping Meaning Journal. She is the author of The Center For Post-Capitalist History’s Field Guide to Embodied Archiving, published by Burrow Press, released in September 2021, and Notes From the Archivist, published by Bodiless Editions, forthcoming Fall/Winter 2024.
Art portfolio: leahsandler.art
Event partners: Burrow Press, Volusia-County ECHO, duPont-Ball Library, and the Homer and Dolly Hand Art Center
Funding for this program was provided in part through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.