Friday July 6, 2012 Toronto, Canada

Interactive performative art philosophy embodied value debate exchange

In this neoliberal period our labour power and our bodies are being taken for granted in ways we object to. The growing income gap and austerity are making resources more scarce in communities. We are forced to give up more of our labour power to a restrictive market and at the same time do more free labour to reproduce community in order to survive. How do we conceive of and address the bind wwe are in: when the labour we desire to do becomes the free labour we are forced to do and the paid labour we are forced to do does not support the lives we desire? In order to address this question Rebecca Garrett and Kim Jackson designed a ritualistic inter- active performance….