WORK
Made with workers.
WORK is about the experience and organisation of contemporary working lives.
Four artists’ films explore contemporary working lives in the middle of England. Made in Derby, Thrapston, Birmingham and Bolsover, by artists Dryden Goodwin, Jenny Holt, Esther Johnson, and Adam Lewis Jacob.
As well as viewing the films, you can read interviews with the artists, essays on the project by Helen De Witt and Adam Pugh, and an overview of project by Vivienne Reiss.
Devised by Animate Projects, WORK is a collaboration with four other Midlands arts organisations: QUAD, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Vivid Projects and Junction Arts. Each organisation worked with an artist, helping them engage workers in the process of making their film.
The WORK films premiered online on International Workers’ Day, 1 May 2020, earlier than planned, after the Covid-19 shut down put physical exhibition and screening plans on hold. We’ll resume these as soon as we can.
WORK is generously supported by Jerwood Arts and using public funding by Arts Council England.
