Invisible Labour Loops was installed in the Michael O'Brian Exhibition Commons at Emily Carr University for the MFA Grad show in July 2024. The main concept is that the invisible labour of caretaking is never done, that gestures of care become a portal to those who have done it before and will do it in the future. This work is Informed by artists and theorists such as Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who understood the connection between exploited maintenance labour, and unpaid 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).
