Carrot Workers Collective
8-10th July
Hall 90B

In terms of the details for the project "Photoromance for Precarious Workers" we propose to work in a participatory way with a group of cultural workers to develop a series of photoromances to map precarity.

Target group:
10-15 temporary, flexible and otherwise precarious workers such as interns, volunteers, freelancers and workers on temporary contracts, and whomever identifies with the issue of free and precarious cultural labour. Ideally we would like people to commit to the full three days.

Planned aims:

Day One
Introduction about our work and presentation of the past photoromances
Conceptual mappings of precarity, breaking into groups
Discussion of Scenarios of Precarity based on our own experiences
Beginning to generate storyboards, to think about costumes, props and locations for day 2

Day Two
Workshopping scenarios, working through the stories and acting them out
Begin shooting the photoromances

Day Three
Continue shooting and postproduction
Printing the photoromances
Final discussion

Photo story for the employees of an unstable form of employment


See images of past photoromances on our blog at:
http://carrotworkers.wordpress.com/2011/02/10/tell-it-like-it-really-is-notes-from-the-floor/


The Carrot Workers Collective is a London-based group of cultural and education workers, students, current or ex interns and non-aligned individuals from the creative and cultural sectors who regularly meet to think together around the conditions of free and precarious labour in London. We are currently undertaking a participatory action research around voluntary work, internship, job placements and compulsory free work in order to understand the impact they have on material conditions of existence, life expectations and sense of self, together with their implications in relation to education, life long training, exploitation, and class interests.