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REPRODUCTION

A summer school exploring 'social reproduction' running from 2-5 June 2019. This term gained traction in feminist thinking during the 1970s, particularly in the International Wages for Housework Campaign. Challenging the gendered distribution of reproductive work, this movement centred the cooking, cleaning and caring activities that replenishes the labour force, yet remain largely unseen, unacknowledged and unpaid. In recent years, social reproduction theory has offered a more expansive account that goes beyond domestic work to also incorporate the provision of necessities such as food, housing and healthcare right through to the production of social values through art, culture and education.

 

Launching on International Sex Workers Day, REPRODUCTION offers a space for practical experiments and questions departing from this analysis of everyday life under capitalism. The starting point for this exploration is the new film Workers! by artist Petra Bauer and sex worker-led organisation SCOT-PEP, currently showing in Collective’s City Dome. The four-day programme of talks, readings, screenings and workshops will expand on themes central to this co-authored film: debates on work and (social) reproduction, the role of artistic practice and film in political struggles, and the complex politics of working with or representing others.

 

Contributors include: artist and filmmaker Petra Bauer, artist and researcher James Bell, curator and art historian Kirsten Lloyd, art historian Victoria Horne, artist Shona MacNaughton, poet and trans/queer activist Nat Raha, art historian Catherine Spencer, writer and activist Molly Smith, and SCOT-PEP. The programme will launch with a public screening of Carole Roussopoulous and collective Vidéo Out’s film ‘Les Prostituées De Lyon Parlent’ in Filmhouse Cinema.

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REPRODUCTION

Join Collective for REPRODUCTION, a summer school exploring ‘social reproduction’

Collective
38 Calton Hill
Edinburgh
EH7 5AA