圍群 MONUMENT of APRON

这个是在我2009年跟Fotini一起组织了一个mapping工作坊的艺术空间，他们现在准备一个关于劳动与资本、家庭生活（英语的“domesticity”好像跟家庭生活不太一样，domesticity指的不一定是家庭里的人际关系，主要是人和家里物质关系，比如做家务）、和机构的关系。在我们这种后福特制社会，艺术机构靠女人的不稳定劳动来运作越来越多，这种剥削也是少工资／少价值的“家务”历史的一部分。

＊ 注：在这里强调feminisms的复数性，我们在这里寻找的“女权主义”不一定是我们之前已定义的东西。

Labour. Capital. Institution: A Forum on Feminisms
3 & 4 July, 2015
98Weeks Research Space
co-organised with Sidsel Nelund

        Within the current research topic of 98weeks, A Forum on Feminisms focuses on labour and its relation to capital, domesticity and institutions. At this specific moment, there is a growing economy of domestic work and migratory flows significant not only for a Lebanese context. Simultaneously, Beirut is experiencing an increase in new art institutions and we see that women constitute a precarious part of the work force upon which the art world functions. As art institutions continuously reproduce this exploitation, we would like to critically ask: How can we think of underpaid women in the art world in the frame of a larger history of un(der)paid domestic work?

        To address this question, we have invited scholars, artists, activists, curators and researchers to focus on the topics of Capital and Institutions over two days. We wish to encourage engagement of participants and have allocated slots of open discussion at the end of each day.

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Sidsel Nelund is an art writer and theorist living and working in Copenhagen.