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The program will begin with a panel discussion on issues of contemporary labor and new forms of creative collaboration led by curators \/ editors Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg in conversation with participants: Dr. Felicitas Hentschke, artist \/ scholars Deanna Ledezma and Joshua Rios, and designer, Sonia Yoon. Event reception to follow.<\/p>\n
REWORKING LABOR is a curatorial research project exploring contemporary representations of work and labor. Building on the interdisciplinary research group re:work, or the IGK Work and Human Life Cycle in Global History program at Humboldt University in Berlin, the project launched in 2018 as an international symposium, followed by an exhibition at SAIC Sullivan Galleries in 2019.<\/p>\n
The culminating publication frames contemporary labor from global perspectives of waged labor to the critical issue of anthropogenic climate change in a world driven by accumulation, expansion, and acceleration. Introduction and essays by editors Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg. Contributions by Cindi Katz, Caleb Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Julian Flavin, Andreas Eckert, Coco Picard, Deanna Ledezma, Josh Rios, Anthony Romero, Riar Rizaldi, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ibrahim Mahama, Felicitas Hentschke and Maurice Weiss, Zoe Beloff and Eric Muzzy, Carole Frances Lung, David Hall and Julia Pello. Produced and designed by Sonia Yoon.<\/p>\n
ISBN: 979-8-218-12579-0
\nSoftcover, 248 pages<\/p>\n
The REWORKING LABOR book launch is presented with support from The Galleries at SAIC and The Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice at SAIC, the Goethe-Institut Chicago, and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency.<\/p>\n
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SEPTEMBER 22\u2013OCTOBER 8, 2019\u201cThe task at hand is to present the topic \u2018work\u2019 by means of a single video sequence; in other words, participants will produce videos consisting of only one sequence. The topic is work: paid, unpaid, material or immaterial, traditional or entirely new work. This assignment formally introduces the foundations of filming, as it\u2019s essential to discover: Where can one find a beginning and an end even if a repetitive process is being shown? Should the camera be moved or stand still? What is the best way to capture the choreography of a work process in a single sequence? Early films told us: Every detail of the mobile world is worth being documented and considered. And they had a fixed point of view, whereas today\u2019s documentary film only too often presents sequence upon sequence because it is undecided.” \u2014H. Farocki\/Antje Ehmann.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles invites representatives of maintenance\u2014custodians, security, and engineering staff\u2014of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) to be very special honored guests at a beautiful lunch in the Sullivan Gallery on September 25, 2019 between 1:00\u20133:00 pm.<\/span><\/p>\n These workers, whom Ukeles calls MAINTAINERS, represent the large number of people whose ongoing work makes it possible for the art students and faculty at SAIC to pursue learning, and proceed with realizing their visions and their creative work in a clean, safe and healthy environment. Every day. These MAINTAINERS are the people who bring the thirst of making into a realm of reality. <\/span>The lunch will be served by a selected group of SAIC students and others, called SERVERS, who wish to offer a gesture of loving thanks for the endless work by the MAINTAINERS.\u00a0<\/span>The heart of this action is to create an atmosphere of pleasure and ease and enjoyment for the MAINTAINERS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Join Jessica Cook-Qurayshi, director of the DePaul Labor Education Center, and artist Caroline Woolard to learn how to negotiate a union contract using sculptural tools and bargaining skills. You will be placed on teams who find themselves in the middle of negotiations for a new union contract. You will learn how to make proposals, deliberate, and work with sculpture tools while you are supported by union members and artists. Space is limited to 20 participants. Please RSVP with subject heading \u201cRSVP FOR OCTOBER 11\u201d to lstein3@artic.edu<\/strong> and confirm that you can be there for the entire three hours.<\/span><\/p>\n It is my pleasure to contact you through this medium<\/i> is a heavily mediated performative lecture that constellates the forms and materials of market speculation, content provision, selfhelp listicles, DIY tutorials, and the promise of self-realized, individual liberation. Framed and presented as an employee orientation, It is my pleasure provides limiting tools for engaging, resisting, and submitting to technological control while refocusing the subjugation of capital away from subjecthood and toward project-hood: the endless refashioning and reinventing of class struggle as a self-realized struggle with oneself.<\/p>\n Image Employment<\/i> \u2013 Aily Nash 75 min followed by discussion<\/p>\n Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Re:Working Labor<\/i>, Image Employment <\/i>presents a selection of recent moving image works on view in the gallery screening room that investigate various modes of contemporary labor and production. Curated by Aily Nash and Andrew Norman Wilson, the program explores the growing confluence of human and machinic technologies, corporate lifestyle, globalized capitalism and its extraction and exploitation of workers and the environment, and the psychic effects of these forms of labor. Nash introduces the program and joins Re:Working Labor\u2019s<\/i> co-curators Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg in an open discussion afterward.<\/p>\n OCTOBER 25, 2023, 4\u20136 PM BOOK LAUNCH: REWORKING LABOR Leroy Neiman Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 37 S. Wabash \u00a0|\u00a0 Free and open to the public A state-issued picture ID is required for entry. PANEL DISCUSSION + RECEPTION The program will begin with a panel discussion on issues of contemporary labor and […]<\/p>\nRead more<\/a>","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-140","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":868,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140\/revisions\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/reworkinglabor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2019\u00a0 | 6:00 PM
\nVisiting Artists Program Lecture: Mierle Laderman Ukeles<\/a>
\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium
\n230 South Columbus Drive
\nFREE, non-ticketed, open to the public<\/h5>\n
\nWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2019\u00a0 | 1:00\u20133:00 PM
\nPerformance: Serving IV: \u201cAs Long As We Are Here\u2026\u201d<\/em>
\nSAIC Sullivan Galleries
\n33 South State Street, 7th floor<\/h5>\n
\nWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2019\u00a0 | 4:30\u20135:30 PM
\nCurators\u2019 Tour
\nEllen Rothenberg and Daniel Eisenberg
\nSAIC Sullivan Galleries
\n33 South State Street, 7th floor<\/h5>\n
\nTUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2019\u00a0 | 6:00 PM<\/b>
\nScreening: Labour in a Single Shot
\n<\/em>MacLean Center
\n112 S. Michigan Ave, room 1307<\/h5>\n
\nFRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2019\u00a0 | 2:00\u20135:00 PM
\nWORKSHOP: NEGOTIATING A CONTRACT
\nCaroline Woolard and Jessica Cook-Qurayshi
\nSAIC Sullivan Galleries
\n33 South State Street, 7th floor<\/h5>\n
\nMONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2019\u00a0 | 6:00 PM
\nIt is my pleasure to contact you through this medium
\n<\/em>David Hall and Julia Pello performance
\nSAIC Sullivan Galleries
\n33 South State Street, 7th floor<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n
\nTHURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2019\u00a0 | 6:00 PM
\nConversations At The Edge<\/a>
\nGene Siskel Film Center
\n164 North State Street<\/h5>\n
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