This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
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The Future of Work: Letters from the Land and Water
In-person
Digital & new media Fibre & textile arts Museum Visual artsDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
51 Stuart Street
Hamilton, ON
Directions: Please use our main east side entrance (with the ramp) to enter the museum. There is free parking on both sides of Stuart Street in front of WAHC. We are located 200 metres from the West Harbour GO station.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible.
About
The Future of Work: Letters to the Land and Water is part one of a three-part exhibition series presented by the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (WAHC) in collaboration with the Art Gallery of Burlington (AGB) that examines how the pandemic has affected labour markets, quality of life, and the future of work as we know it.
Letters to the Land and Water brings together works by Alvin Luong, Audie Murray, Jagdeep Raina, and Sindhu Thirumalaisamy which probe the intersections between material culture, the natural environment, and the economies that surround them.
Developed by the curatorial collective of Suzanne Carte, Srimoyee Mitra, Simranpreet Anand, and Adrienne Huard (Winnipeg, MB), each of the three distinct exhibitions uses interactive stations, film, photography, sculpture, and site-specific installations to open conversations on precarious labour, parallel economies, and labour futurisms.
The Future of Work: Letters to the Land and Water is viewable in WAHC’s Main Gallery from August 31-December 16, 2022. Admission to WAHC is free to the public.
Links
- The Future of Work: Letters from the Land and Water wahc-museum.ca
Organizer
Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (WAHC) is a community museum and multidisciplinary arts centre located in the historic Custom House in Hamilton, ON. Our mission is to celebrate the stories of all working people through art, history, and culture.
WAHC provides an array of exhibitions, educational programs, guided tours, online exhibits and events to our local community and to provincial and national audiences. WAHC is also home to a contemporary gallery showing work by local and national artists that address the diverse histories and cultures of working people. We are free to the public and have been a proud part of the Hamilton community for over 25 years!