This is an archived event from Culture Days 2022.
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The Future of Work: Parallel Economies
In-person
Visual artsDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Art Gallery of Burlington - Lee-Chin Family Gallery
1333 Lakeshore Road
Burlington, ON
Access
Free, and accepts optional pay-what-you-may donations for admission.
Offered in English.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
The Future of Work is a three-part exhibition series formed as sites of continual research on the labour markets, essential work, equity, and mobility. In collaboration with the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (WAHC), the exhibitions are a process to examine how the pandemic has affected the labour markets and quality of life. The curatorial collective of Suzanne Carte, Srimoyee Mitra, Simranpreet Anand, and Adrienne Huard create three distinct platforms for conversations surrounding precarious labour, parallel economies, and labour futurisms.
At the AGB from August 26 – December 31, 2022, the Parallel Economies chapter explores emerging and established diverse economies, radical new forms of production and alternatives to the ways in which industrial sectors exploit resources and workers. The exhibition and program series features artists and cultural producers who work within solidarity economies, focus on mutual aid, actively work against competitive forms of growth, and who formulate anti-capitalist methods and strategies around worker ownership, peer-to-peer, gift economies, cooperatives, community-governance, financial justice, and climate justice reform, including Justseeds, Christina Battle, Jeffrey Gibson, GUDSKUL, Works-in-Progress, Derya Akay, Gendai, Jen Delos Reyes & June Ahn, Jeneen Frei Njootli, Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill, Chandra Melting Tallow, & Tania Willard, and community members such as the art and craft guilds of the region, local gardeners, historians, and restaurants, as well as the Burlington Public Library, The Pink Project, and Brock University’s Department of Labour Studies.
*Image Credit: LOKI, Future of Work design, 2022 Courtesy of Kevin Yuen Kit Lo
Links
- Art Gallery of Burlington agb.life
Organizer
Art Gallery of Burlington
The Art Gallery of Burlington is Burlington’s public art gallery and community centre. We are a place of intersection where creators, cultures and communities meet and share in the wealth of human creativity.