Friday, 12 July 2013
Thursday, 11 July 2013
Talks about Cleaning Conditions in the UK and relation with Migration and under valued jobs. (participation of Migrant Supporting Migrants and Latin Support Group)
Cleaning Conditions
Friday 12 July from 12 to 1pm and
Saturday 13 July 2013
4.00pm -
5.00pm
FREE
A performance by Suzanne Lacy for the Do It Exhibition. Join us
for conversations with invited speakers around current issues connected
to Manchester including low page, minimum and Living Wage debates,
women's relationships to work, migrant workers and sweeping.
Sweeping the dust from the floor of a room,
spreading the dust in another room
so it won’t be noticed.
Continuing daily
Allan Kaprow, 1995
Suzanne Lacy is responding to this instruction by
the artist Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) Kaprow's work explored how art and
life could converge through performance pieces, using everyday objects
and familiar actions.
The current performance - Cleaning Conditions - takes
cleaners and the act sweeping as it’s starting point. Lacy is
interpreting Kaprow’s instruction through the lenses of gender and
activism, provocatively framing the instruction in terms of the social
and political climate in Manchester. Conversations on immigration,
class and the struggle for global equity will be framed within a
context of current issues in women’s role in the care and service
industries and the corporatisation of such labour.
This is part of Do it an exhibition of artist’s instructions.
During Manchester International Festival Suzanne plans three actions.
Sweeping
For eight days nine rooms in the gallery will be swept by people who are not the cleaners of the gallery.
Public conversations
Simultaneously the public is invited to participate
in conversations led by a cross section of workers, including local
activists and scholars, convened in front of the Ford Maddox Brown
painting “Work” (1852-1863) in the Pre-Raphaelite gallery.
Private conversations
Throughout the festival staff members from
Manchester Art Gallery will gather in cross-sector meetings to
privately consider their complex personal relationships to the global
gendering of care and service.
Performance Dates
Fri 12 July 12 -1pm
Sat 13 July 4 - 5pm
Sun 14 July 3 -4pm
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