After Work Conversations

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Alina Lupu participates in the After Work Conversations of the HfK Bremen on 11.5.2023, in the photo she installs her work "Work, Rest, What We Will" in the exhibition space Eight Cubic Meters of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. | Quelle: Alina Lupu | Download

Artists, workers, activists, and academics are invited to a joint exploration of how digital technology shapes (future and current) conditions of work, as well as possibilities for class solidarity.

Taking place within the framework of the international doctorate programme for artists and designers PhDArts (ACPA, Leiden University and KABK, The Hague) and the Binational Artistic-PhD program (HfK Bremen), the symposium asks if artistic research can contribute tools and concepts that bring together not only practitioners from the arts (culture) and academia, but also a politically engaged and wider public.

The first session, #1 Play hard, work harder in The Hague, centered on whether video games as an artistic medium have the potential to challenge unfair working practices, mobilize workers and cultivate solidarity. The second session, #2 Post-Work-Imaginaries in Bremen, focuses on how a post-work future can be imagined from the various perspectives of the participating guests.

#2 Post-Work-Imaginaries
With contributions by Alina Lupu, Nonni Morisse & Rainer Reising (ver.di), Robin De Greef, Dave Beech
May 11th, 2023 | 10-16:00h @ Auditorium, HfK Bremen

Participation is free of charge

More information:
phdarts.eu
artisticphd-hfkbremen.net

Co-organized by Lídia Pereira and Henrik Nieratschker in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Anke Haarmann and Prof. Dr. Andrea Sick.

SPEAKERS

Nonni Morisse & Rainer Reising (ver.di)
Nonni Morisse is a local secretary of German union ver.di, in charge of the organization of workers at Amazon in Bremen/Niedersachsen.
Rainer Reising is active member of the established worker’s council at Amazon in Achim.

Alina Lupu

Alina Lupu was born and raised in Romania and works as a writer and post-conceptual artist in Amsterdam, Netherlands. She is a general board member of Platform BK, an organization that researches the role of art in society, and advocates for a better art policy, a student of the Master Photography and Society at the KABK, The Hague, and a former research fellow with the Lectorate Art and Spatial Praxis at the Rietveld Academie, looking into the role of artists within processes of gentrification.

Robin de Greef

Robin de Greef is author of the book “Riders Unite!” in which he investigates the recent struggles of employees of food delivery services in the gig economy. He pursues his M.A. in Labour Studies at the University Göttingen where he was employed as a research assistant until 2023. He currently works as a union organizer in hospitals and occasionally as a media educator. He is an active member of the grassroots union FAU (Gewerkschaft Freie Arbeiter*innen Union) since 2018.

Dave Beech

Dave Beech is the author of the books Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production (Pluto Press 2019) and Art and Value: Art's Economic Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics (Brill 2015). He studied painting and cultural studies and completed a PhD at the University of the Arts London on the economics of art. He was Professor of Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg and is currently Reader in Art and Marxism at Chelsea College of Art.