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.

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.

If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be a Part of Your Revolution
Alternativ a Workshops

If I Can’t Dance presents artists Edition IV

On 10 June, If I Can’t Dance presents Edition IV, with new projects in development by artists Jeremiah Day, Sung Hwan Kim, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Hito Steyerl and Emily Wardill, at the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk. During an afternoon programme, If I Can’t Dance invites its five commissioned artists to speak about their new works, which are to be finalized and presented to the public in fall/winter 2011. The gathering will provide a platform for exchange and discussion among the artists and with the audience. Curator Jacob Korczynski is moderator of the day.

If Can’t Dance’s field of research for Edition IV is the notion of affect, which can be read in the light of our continuing investigations into the construction of subjectivity and the politics of identity. Our interest in affect illuminates and intensifies our projects, allowing for connections to be made where relevant. The programme takes place in the context of If I Can’t Dance’s contribution to Alternativa, the international contemporary visual art festival that aims to investigate the ways in which contemporary art intersects with the political.

The commissioned works are developed in collaboration with our current partner organisations M HKA in Antwerp, Site Gallery in Sheffield, Tate Modern in London, Veemtheater in Amsterdam, and Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk.

Programme Friday 10 June, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk
Moderator: Jacob Korczynski

12:00 Introduction by If I Can’t Dance
12:15 Wendelien van Oldenborgh 
12:45 Q&A
13:00 Sung Hwan Kim

13:30 Q&A
13:45 Lunch break
14:30 Jeremiah Day

15:00 Q&A
15:15 Emily Wardill

15:45 Q&A
16:00 Hito Steyerl

16:30 Q&A
16:45 End of day