RE:WORKING LABOR
About the Project:
Exhibition and Programs
What does work look like now?
What might it look like in the future?
How do we represent immaterial labor and increasingly abstract forms of work?
How do we make visible work that’s been disregarded or ignored?
How can we leverage social change through these new representations?
Bringing together over eighty artists in twelve projects that produce new representations of labor in an increasingly technologized global economy, Institute for Curatorial Research and Practice Faculty Fellows and exhibition curators Daniel Eisenberg and Ellen Rothenberg aim to produce not one conversation, but overlapping conversations—perspectives that touch one another—with representations of contemporary labor that shift in scale and scope, yet speak to each other in fundamental ways.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation; SAIC’s Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation; SAIC’s Department of Instructional Resources and Facilities Management; the Earl and Brenda Shapiro Center for Research + Collaboration SAIC; Goethe-Institut Chicago; the International Research Centre “Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History” at Humboldt University, Berlin; SAIC’s Visiting Artists Program; and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency. RE:WORKING LABOR is part of the Year of German-American Friendship initiated by the German Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut and is supported by the Federation of German Industries (BDI).
EXHIBITION HISTORY
September 21—November 17, 2019, Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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