This half-day symposium invites audience members to engage with international artists and academics to investigate current conditions of artistic production in relation to new forms of labour in the emerging global economy. Presenting various perspectives on immaterial labour and its relationship to contemporary art, speakers will address questions around the impact of immaterial production on new aesthetic forms and uses of art, how artists both embody and contest the precarious working conditions of immaterial labour, and art’s potential to serve as immanent critique of capitalism.
Confirmed speakers
Claire Bishop, Tania Bruguera, Pascal Gielen, Stefano Harney, Stewart Martin, Hito Steyerl, and Carey Young.
Untitled (labour) is a research project developed by Lauren Rotenberg and T.J. Demos of UCL's Department of Art History in collaboration with Tate Britain, with the support of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art at UCL and UCL's Graduate Research Fund.