(Im)material Labour: Co-Operative Capabilities & Aesthetic Management
July 7th, 2013 @ 1.30 – 4.00pm
http://www.artexchange.org.uk/event/pil-galia-kollectiv-in-conversation-with-stevphen-shukaitis
Slack Space Colchester Victoria Place, off Eld Lane, CO1 1LR Colchester
http://slackspace.org.uk/
1.30pm – Curators’ Tour
3.00pm – Pil & Galia Kollectiv in Conversation with Stevphen Shukaitis
Pil & Galia Kollectiv (http://www.kollectiv.co.uk) are London-based
artists, writers and curators who work in collaboration. Their work
addresses the legacy of modernism. It explores avant-garde discourses of
the twentieth century in the context of a changing landscape of creative
work and instrumentalized leisure. Their video work ‘Co-Operative
Explanatory Capabilities in Organizational Design and Personnel
Management’ is exhibited as part of (Im)material Labour:
http://www.kollectiv.co.uk/Co-Operative.html
Stevphen Shukaitis a lecturer at the University of Essex, Centre for
Work, Organization, and Society. His research focuses on the emergence
of collective imagination in social movements and the changing
compositions of cultural and artistic labour.
About the exhibition:
(Im)material Labour explores our shifting position in an economically
functioning society. From the systemization of post-fordist labour
through to the de-materialization of the service sector, our patterns of
working behavior are constantly being reconfigured.
(Im)material Labour draws together the work of a number of artists who
interrogate this phenomenon in light of the current economic climate.
Seeking to decode and humanize the financial crisis through analytical
ideas and research, the works on display often result in therapeutic and
humorous outcomes.
The exhibition includes works by Martin John Callanan, Pil & Galia
Kollectiv, Arnaud Desjardin, Patrick Coyle, Nick Bailey, Paul Westcombe,
Hyun Woo Lee and a new commission by Galeria Niewielka.
(Im)material Labour is curated by Warren Harper, Matylda Taszycka, and
Jonathan Weston.
Requisite facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/events/157111994476312
Sponsored by the University of Essex Centre for Work, Organization, and
Society: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ebs/research/cwos
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