SUBTEXTS & BARE MINIMUM COLLECTIVE PRESENT >>>>>THIS WORLD MAKES US SICK>>>
Workshop with Lola Olufemi and Vera Chapiro of the Bare Minimum Collective
Weds 7 May, 5-7pm, QMUL BLOC (white and black room)
Limited Places. Only 15 places available. Book for reserve spots.
Capital fragments us. Inside of social landscapes defined by wage theft labour becomes another route through which to organise violence, accelerating processes of disposability and death-making.
How can writing and other modes of collaboration resist the extraction of surplus value? How can they give us back to ability to labour for one another?
How can we imagine work beyond drudgery and obligation? What forms of relation enable joy, play, desire and resistance?
In this anti-work/ shop we will conspire to reclaim what is rightfully ours: our labour power and our right to decide its direction and meaning. Expect failure. All are welcome.
BARE MINIMUM COLLECTIVE Bare Minimum is a queer interdisciplinary anti-work art collective. We hate working, hustling, neoliberal self-improvement, wage labour and surplus value, private property, how work eats into our time, our love, and our ability to make things in earnest. We are group of friends who decided to formally name an existing structure of relation that keeps us alive through our labour for each other. We are lazy, queer and many of us are disabled. Our work has most recently been on show at Kunsthalle Wien’s 2023 exhibition ‘In the Meantime, Winter Comes Around’, as well as in screenings at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts (2023) and Somerset House (2023).
