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Alternate routes: a journal of Critical Social Research, 2016
PRECARIA We are aware of recent contributions to an ongoing conversation about the politics of pr... more PRECARIA We are aware of recent contributions to an ongoing conversation about the politics of precarity that arise from the intensifying devaluation of the labour of cultural workers: Aruna D’Souza’s Dying of Exposure, Yasmin Nair’s Scabs: Academics and Others who Write for Free, and Barbara Ehrenreich’s In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty. Each of these authors comment on the increasing lack of job security and pay for their work as writers, and point out that only people with other income sources can really afford to write for free. A similar situation exists for other cultural workers, including artists such as ourselves. Our involvement in this discussion took a turn with an invitation to participate in Mayworks3 Windsor in 2012, where we presented a performative relational video screening workshop called Homunculus: Occupy y/our life. We continued the conversation in 2013 with a subsequent work: Abundant Future: Interactive Performative Art Philosophy E...
The "Young Contemporaries" exhibition, part of a sporadic series organized by London Re... more The "Young Contemporaries" exhibition, part of a sporadic series organized by London Regional Art Gallery, offers a selection among the recent work of Canadian artists 30 years of age and under. Despite the diversity of sensibilities revealed by the works, Fleming identifies some common tendencies, all of them symptomatic of the breakdown of modernist discourse. Short texts prepared by the artists are included. Biographical notes.
Public, 2003
Munya Madzima is a sculptor/painter/performance artist who exhibits internationally and is curren... more Munya Madzima is a sculptor/painter/performance artist who exhibits internationally and is currently completing his Master's in Visual Art at York University in Toronto, Canada. Rebecca Garrett is a videographer, photographer and installation artist and teaches at the Ontario College ...
Alternate routes: a journal of Critical Social Research, 2016
PRECARIA We are aware of recent contributions to an ongoing conversation about the politics of pr... more PRECARIA We are aware of recent contributions to an ongoing conversation about the politics of precarity that arise from the intensifying devaluation of the labour of cultural workers: Aruna D’Souza’s Dying of Exposure, Yasmin Nair’s Scabs: Academics and Others who Write for Free, and Barbara Ehrenreich’s In America, only the rich can afford to write about poverty. Each of these authors comment on the increasing lack of job security and pay for their work as writers, and point out that only people with other income sources can really afford to write for free. A similar situation exists for other cultural workers, including artists such as ourselves. Our involvement in this discussion took a turn with an invitation to participate in Mayworks3 Windsor in 2012, where we presented a performative relational video screening workshop called Homunculus: Occupy y/our life. We continued the conversation in 2013 with a subsequent work: Abundant Future: Interactive Performative Art Philosophy E...
The "Young Contemporaries" exhibition, part of a sporadic series organized by London Re... more The "Young Contemporaries" exhibition, part of a sporadic series organized by London Regional Art Gallery, offers a selection among the recent work of Canadian artists 30 years of age and under. Despite the diversity of sensibilities revealed by the works, Fleming identifies some common tendencies, all of them symptomatic of the breakdown of modernist discourse. Short texts prepared by the artists are included. Biographical notes.
Public, 2003
Munya Madzima is a sculptor/painter/performance artist who exhibits internationally and is curren... more Munya Madzima is a sculptor/painter/performance artist who exhibits internationally and is currently completing his Master's in Visual Art at York University in Toronto, Canada. Rebecca Garrett is a videographer, photographer and installation artist and teaches at the Ontario College ...