# bekconroy > stink tank operator making shit happen ## Posts - [Walking to the Laundromat](https://bekconroy.com/walking-to-the-laundromat/): Walking to the Laundromat is a darkly (mis)guided walking meditation for participants doing their collective laundry exploring affective labour and the penetration of the female body by capital Life can sometimes feel like a long laundry list that you struggle to get through. *Sigh. If this is you, doing the laundry can be a great opportunity to refocus on your core strengths and build resilience into your day. Walking to the Laundromat is an audio walk that combines mindfulness practice with doing the laundry in an attempt to explain the interconnections between service economy, emotional capital, and affective labour from […] - [The Iron Lady](https://bekconroy.com/the-iron-lady/) - [Marrickville School of Economics](https://bekconroy.com/marrickville-school-of-economics/): Marrickville School of Economics is an artist led pedagogy for doing economy differently. The Marrickville School of Economics is a creative accounting experiment and artist-led curriculum for studying and developing new ways to do economy.The School is free to attend at Frontyard Project space (Marrickville) and open to all. Its syllabus will evolve in a manner that responds to the practical needs of the community. Plans are in the making for online delivery of the courses.MSE functions as a stink-tank for the forensic investigation of the systemic inadequacies of the current neoliberal economic model.Drawing on radical research and experimentation in […] - [Money Laundering](https://bekconroy.com/money-laundering/): Money Laundering is an experimental business outfit for an artist-run laundromat in the feast and famine gig-economy. Money Laundering is the outrageous business outfit you wear when you want to start an artist-led Laundromat. Four fierce and funny women friends commenced this project in 2016 as an experimental platform for working out a hybrid model combining the logics of social enterprise, worker cooperatives, and artist led practice. The main mission of the artist run laundromat was to provide flexible employment for artists in between gigs—the time when you have just come off a big gig, or about to go overseas […] - [Dating an Economist](https://bekconroy.com/dating-an-economist/): Dating an Economist is an audio and embedded performance work involving a series of dinner dates with economists across the UK, Canada and the US in 2015. As the furious pace of neoliberalism continues to transform every space, body and desire into an airbnb equivalent—what are the options for those of us who still believe in ‘free love’? Can radical acts of creation and intervention avoid being recuperated by the death machine? What does it mean to be a freelance artist under finance capitalism? Can we reengineer the economy and speculate on our futures and derivatives in ways that don’t […] - [The History of Dicks on the Landscape](https://bekconroy.com/the-history-of-dicks-on-the-landscape/): The History of Dicks on the Landscape is a reading of landscape through the lens of the primordial phallus. This project was conceived in residency with the fellows of Mildred’s Lane residency during the summer of 2015 (New York, USA)And manifest as a Performance and Fire Installation. It was accompanied by the following performed text. The History of Dicks on the Landscape [words by by Rebecca Conroy] The history of landscape is the blunt end of the axe penetrating our deepest thoughts. It is the sweeping of the shaft through grasslands,the silent suffering of the atmospherethe rampant march of dicks […] - [Yurt Empire](https://bekconroy.com/yurt-empire/): Yurt Empire is a rogue housing project and site specific encounter. Yurt Empire was an attempt to ART-ifically graft and insert an artist’s colony and economy onto an apparent ‘wasteland’. It was also a live art work containing a growing number of sustainable and unsustainable situations; A durational performance based installation about housing and living, and a discursive space exploring the cultural commons, urban renewal and a remix of permaculture design.Yurt Empire brought together 23 artists to respond to the simplicity of the basic yurt design and the contested history and notions of “Wastelands” as the complicated lens through which […] ## Pages - [](https://bekconroy.com/contact/) - [Work](https://bekconroy.com/work/) - [Colour-in-Club](https://bekconroy.com/colour-in-club/) - [Writings](https://bekconroy.com/writings/): BooksEd. J. Cornall, R. Conroy, A. Crosby, S. Piper, Gang Re:Publik: Indonesian and Australian Creative Adventures. Sydney: Gang Incorporated, 2008.Ed. Louise Crabtree, Carolyn Sappideen, Stewart Lawler, Rebecca Conroy, Joanne McNeill, Enabling Community Land Trusts in Australia. Arena, Sydney. 2019. Select essays and chapters‘Deliberative Development’ in “Enabling Community Land Trusts in Australia” ed. Louise Crabtree, Carolyn Sappideen, Stewart Lawler, Rebecca Conroy, Joanne McNeill, Arena Publishing, Sydney, 2019“Practising Self Care in the Arts” NAVA May 30, 2019“Art and Economics” NAVA March 26, 2019“Critical Dialogues: Hacking the Anthropocene” Editor, Issue 11, Critical Path. May 2019.“How would an artist-run economy behave?” in Panigirakis, S […] - [](https://bekconroy.com/): The road to hell is paved with good abstraction. Antoinette Rouvroy - [About](https://bekconroy.com/about/): Rebecca is an interdisciplinary creature working in pedagogical, participatory and context specific ways. She holds a Bachelor Arts Hons (first class) and a PhD from the University of Newcastle (2006) during which her field work (1997-2002) in Indonesia resembled the sequel to “The Year of Living Dangerously.” Her creative work has been presented in Australia and internationally, and she has taught at several universities in performance, community cultural development, theatre, and socially engaged practice. Rebecca also works as freelance editor and is regularly commissioned to create evaluation and assessment reports for a range of arts and non-arts organisations. Rebecca is […] [comment]: # (Generated by Hostinger Tools Plugin)