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  • Labour
    • Phase 1: Manual Labours (2013)
      • MANUAL LABOURS, The Peltz Room, Birkbeck, London (8-12 April, 2013)
    • Phase 2: Complaining and Criticality (2014)
    • Phase 3: The Complaining Body (2015-16)
      • Exhibition at the Peltz Gallery, London
      • Manual Labours: The Complaining Body, The Showroom, London
      • The Revolting Body – a series of films Selected by Sarah Browne
      • Commissions
        • Hamish MacPherson
        • IVOR SOUTHWOOD
          • Writing from Worcester
        • SARAH BROWNE
      • Phase #3 research diary
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        • The Complaining Body in Preston
        • The Revolting Body
        • The Source
        • What’s wrong with work?
      • Reading Group
        • Reading Group #1 Tuesday 24 February, 6-8pm
        • Reading Group #2 Tuesday, 28th April, 7pm
        • Reading Group #3 Tuesday 30 June, 6-8pm
    • Phase 4: Building as Body (2017-18)
      • The Building as Body Publication Launch
    • Conferences
      • Generative Constraints
      • London Conference for Critical Thought
      • Making Something From Nothing
      • PARSE conference – Never off work (2018)
      • Work, Employment and Society
    • Other things
      • ‘Live Nude Girls, Unite!’ Screening (2014)
      • CLOCKING, In Certain Places, Lancaster (2014)
      • Making Use. Life in Post Artistic Times
      • PROCESS / MATERIAL / MANUFACTURE, The Tetley, Leeds (2014)
      • THE 2nd NED JAMES FESTIVAL OF WOMEN’S WERK, WORCESTER CITY ART GALLERY (2013)
      • When spectators work, workers observe
    • Writing by and about Manual Labours
      • Labours of Love
      • Loving work: Drawing attention to pleasure and pain in the body of the cultural worker
      • Manual Labours: The Complaining Body: Exhibition explores the fine arts of moaning and listening
      • Uncomplaining Bodies
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Labour

In this section of the website we archive the previous phases of our research, conference and exhibitions we’ve been part of, things we’ve written and things written about Manual Labours.

Phase 1: Manual Labours (2013)
Phase 2: Complaining and Criticality (2014)
Phase 3: The Complaining Body (2015-16)
Phase 4: Building as Body (2017-18)
Conferences
Other things
Writing by and about Manual Labours

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