Event overview
Part of a weekend of events that invite visitors to engage with some of Mika Rottenberg’s critical themes; those wrapped in a thick mantle of absurd and often sensory metaphors.
Female labour has historically been hidden in the form of domestic labour, which has now been integrated into the economy of on-demand work. Women, minorities and migrant workers are much more likely to fill these kinds of jobs. Permanent employment across several sectors has shifted to precarious jobs through outsourcing, use of employment agencies, and inappropriate classification of workers as “short-term” or “independent contractors.” The panel, moderated by Goldsmiths faculty Helena Reckitt and comprised of Molly Arthurs and Siobhán McGuirk, both experts in the fields of economy, policy and feminist histories, aims to comprehensively and multilaterally explore these subjects.
Participants
Helena Reckitt (Moderator)
Formerly Senior Curator of Programmes at The Power Plant in Toronto (2006-2010), she is currently Reader in Curating in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London. As a curator and researcher, she has extensive international experience in developing curatorial and critical research projects that focus on the overlapping realms of Art, Curating, Feminism and Sexual Politics; Affect & Relationality; and Curatorial Education. She has developed projects for Nuit Blanche, City of Toronto; Flux Night, Atlanta; Oakville Galleries, Ontario; Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto; and the ICA, Raven Row, SPACE and The Showroom, London.
Molly Gerlach-Arthur
Molly Gerlach-Arthurs is a founding member of Decrim Now, the National Campaign for Sex Workers Rights. They also work with the Sex Worker Advocacy and Resistance Movement and the Women’s Strike Assembly, lobbying for better laws to create a safer sex industry for all involved
Siobhán McGuirk
Siobhán McGuirk is an anthropologist (PhD American University, 2016), currently working as a Postdoctoral Early Career Researcher in the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Siobhán’s interdisciplinary research focuses on migration and sexuality, law and society, NGOs along with social justice movements, visual cultures, exhibiting, and museums; with a particularly investment in collaborative research methods. Alongside her academic publications, Siobhán produces podcasts for the SCA, write regularly for Red Pepper magazine, organize installations, and creates documentary films. She is also engaged in grassroots and institutional initiatives concerning LGBTQ+ rights, immigration, women’s rights, and decolonizing teaching praxis.
Loud Bodies is a weekend of participatory events, sonic performances, and a panel discussion, where visitors are invited to unpack some of Mika Rottenberg’s critical themes, usually wrapped in a thick mantle of absurd – and often sensory – metaphors.
Co-curated by Goldsmiths MFA Curating students; Bhav Bhella, Kathy Cho, Lxo Cohen, Oana Damir, I-Ying Liu, Samantha Moreno, Sophie Netchaef, Andrew Price and Annika Thiems
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Sep 2018 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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