Art Labour Compendium
Exhibition open: 3.3.12 – 25.3.12
Sat. – Sun. 12:00 – 18:00
Private view: Thursday March 1st 19:00 – 21:00
Art Labour Compendium is an
on-going body of works that seeks to interrogate the relation between
art and capital through reflections on labour and wage struggles within
the arts economy.
The compendium is in a constant
state of recomposition and flux. In its current guise, it comprises
film, sculpture and photographic work. For xero, kilne & coma, the
compendium exhumes the buried histories of the London branch of the
Artists Union (1972-1983) and the Art strike action committees of London
and San Francisco (1990 - 1993). It also investigates the problem of
the vanguard by staging reconciliation between Marx and Bakunin in the
style of De Kooning, and explores the question of the labour bound up in
the making of an artwork.
