Manual Labours: The Building as a Body
This event is the first public outcome of The Building as a Body; a project between Manual Labours (Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards) and the staff at Nottingham Contemporary. Through a series of workshops, they have been assessing the health of different parts of the building staff work in.
During this public event Manual Labours will also screen a film they commissioned by Irish artist Sarah Browne, 'Report to an Academy' 2016, exploring the contemporary academic environment as a neoliberal, Kafkaesque workplace, after which they will perform an endoscopy of the building as a body.
Manual Labours is an ongoing practice-based research project exploring physical and emotional relationships to work, initiated by Jenny Richards and Sophie Hope. This project reconsiders current time-based structures of work (when does work start and end?) and reasserts the significance of the physical (manual) aspect of immaterial, affective and emotional labour. www.manuallabours.co.uk
Event:
Manual Labours: The Building as a BodyDates:
23 May 2017, 6.30pm–8.30pmSupported by:
