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Manual Labours Manual #5 (Prototype 1)
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Stories from the Global Staffroom: Experiences of Caring and Uncaring Architectures at work with Effy Harle and Jos Boys
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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
Invisible Procedures
Practice-based research
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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Manual Labours Manual #1
Manual Labours Manual #2
Manual Labours Manual #3
Manual Labours Manual #4
Manual Labours Manual #5
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