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Dignity of Labour: Phase 1
Dignity of Labour: Phase 1
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Location
Palazzo Mora, VeniceStart date
2023-05-19End date
2023-11-26Language
English (plus Macedonian, + title in Italian, Portuguese and Vietnamese)Notes
Dignity of Labour is an installation that juxtaposes physical labour in severely harsh conditions with creative works that aim to acknowledge and honour that labour. Displayed as part of a Time Space and Existence Palazzo Mora in Venice and part of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=pktqQwcGkrp >> 3rd Floor #3E4 https://www.labiennale.org/en/noticeboard/402Research statement
Background Immigration centres and industries that employed refugee and immigrant labour in the post war period can be thought of as nodes in an interdependent spatial and transnational labour network. The physical sites and projects featured in this exhibition convey this network, its nodal points and inter-cultural social interactions through a study of Migrant Camps, Snowy hydro-electric power, Woomera (defence) and raw- material production Port Kembla Steelworks, trans-Asian suburbanisation in Melbourne. ARC DPDP190101531 Architecture and Industry: Immigrants' contribution to nation-building, 1945-1979. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=vokEs66qQDE https://architec Contribution Dignity of Labour is an installation that juxtaposes physical labour in severely harsh conditions with creative works that aim to acknowledge and honour that labour. Phase 1 presents a fragmented and partial portrayal of immigrant labour at the Port Kembla Steelworks. It is juxtaposed with photographic representation of a physical model of one tiny section of the steelworks and a sequential photographic record of the process of crafting the model. The care of making the model, and the intent to make a beautiful model explores ways that artistic and representation activity can attend to the legacy of working people. Significance This work participates and contributes to art installation practices exploring two types of gaps: a gap in perception of industrial architecture as a space of labour focussing on the interior and the workers; and a gap of the creative process as labour, as the creative and technical labour of making. The juxtaposition draws on the work on intensifying the visual medium with reference to John Berger’s early work on Ways of Seeing, and Kaja Silverman psychoanalytic work on ‘looking again.’ Shown at the Palazzo Mora, Venice - international venue.Publication classification
JO2 Original Creative Works – Design/Architectural workExtent
4 images of final exhibition 1 pdf of the creative process 1 pdf of the catalogue 1 URL link to the matterport virtual tourEditor/Contributor(s)
Tang QREvent
Time Space Existence (ECC) and Venice Architecture. Biennale (2023 : Venice, Italy)Publisher
European Cultural Centre (ECC) ItalyPlace of publication
Venice, Palazzo MoraSeries
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