Invisible Labour Loops was installed in the Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons at Emily Carr University for the MFA Grad show in July 2024, and again at the Libby Leshgold gallery in 2025. The project's overall concept is that the invisible labour of caretaking is never done. Repetitive gestures of care can open up a portal to those who have laboured in the past, and towards those will labour in the future. This work is Informed by artists and theorists such as Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who understood the connection between exploited public maintenance labour, and unpaid domestic mothering labour. Capitalist patriarchal systems depend on so-called ‘free’ labour in order to persist, and they benefit from care labour’s continued devaluation.
It is recommended that you view the filmed documentation of the installed looping animations full screen, on a computer.
If you would like to learn more about my thesis project you can find it on my MFA blog, linked below (beside the instagram logo). As well, you can read an adapted version in the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14794713.2025.2465949
