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Living Labour / Working Life

Shawn Maximo, Creeper Comforts (Specialty Multi), 2017, Courtesy the artist

Sep 6 2017
Museumsplatz 1
Vienna 1070
Phone: +43 1 521890
18:00
3,-
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
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Living Labour / Working Life casts a feminist perspective on working relations in order to trace the hierarchy between reproductive and productive, immaterial and material, cognitive and manual labour.

With Barbara Mahlknecht, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, a.o.

Capitalism has separated the public, productive and accumulative space from the private, reproductive, maintainer space. This separation goes hand in hand with social and gender-based divisions that reinforced the invisibility of (devalued) work mainly performed by women. Today, not only gender-inequalities continue to exist, also the hierarchical order of immaterial and manual labour seems set, while private life, desires, sexuality and affects enter the public, economic space. How has this situation evolved? How can we re-think care, maintenance and reproductive activities?

Language: English

TODAY’S TOMORROWS
Discursive Program within the framework of the exhibition "Work it, feel it!"
What will the world of work look like tomorrow? How can one act today in order to question the conceptions of capitalism, of de-regulation as well as geographical and gender-related separations of work? How can alternatives be addressed and shaped?

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