Tryleather.net: Performance Research and the Embodied Archive
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This short article explores the collaborative revival of Try Leather (1975), a stage-based solo by Canadian performance artist Margaret Dragu. Fifty years after its premiere, artists Britta Wirthmüller, Justine A. Chambers, and William Locke Wheeler engaged with Dragu to reimagine the work through movement-based research and archival production. Their process generated an expansive digital archive—collected at Tryleather.net . This platform functions as both score and archive, activating an embodied and speculative approach to performance history. Rooted in feminist performance, sex work activism, and artist-run culture, the project resists static historicization, instead proposing a living, networked archive that invites ongoing engagement and re-performance through collaborative, processual, and community-driven methodologies.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it