Work Like This: A public discussion around precarious labour, visibility and domestic work at Tate Modern

Andrea Francke                                                                                                    Andrea Francke was born in Peru and is currently based in London. She is currently developing two main research projects. Invisible spaces of parenthood: A collection of pragmatic propositions for a better future explores issues surrounding childcare in collaboration with local nurseries, childminders, children’s centres and parent groups. She shared about her experience during the workshop with J4DW at the Showroom and was so touch with the experiences of shared by members of J4DW. 

Marissa Begonia, Justice 4 Domestic Workers

discussed briefly all the workshops with Tate Modern, The Showroom, Mathias of FNV, ASK!, Werker Magazine. How the collaboration project help improve confidence of J4DW members and create their own artistic ARTS creation to express their stories and realisation of valuing the unwanted things around the household. The project also help in making Domestic Work visible in British Society and will contribute to the current campaign to restore the domestic worker visa with rights.

Visual artist Marc Roig Blesa and Graphic designer Rogier Delfos

Werker Magazine is a contextual publication about photography and labour that inquires into the possibility of formulating a contemporary representation of work. 

The Audience

The Workshop on WerKer Magazine

Choosing Category

Nora Razian (left) of Tate Modern

Louise Shelley (pointing picture) of the Showroom

Domestic workers use arts to voice rights in Europe

Dubbed as “Work Like This”, the event featured artists and activists working on projects about domestic work, highlighting a mutual struggle for recognition and visibility in wider society.

“It was interesting to look at how different artists take up this idea of invisibility and visibility, and work in a way that is parallel to the work that Justice 4 Domestic Workers is doing,” explained Nora Razian, curator of adult program at Tate Modern. By Patrick Camara Ropeta, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau (Full Article)

Metropolitan's Classes

J4DW has been granted fund by Metropolitan Small Grants providing The ESOL and IT classes for Beginner and Advance learners to improve English and Networking for Migrant Workers and Migrants Domestic workers, Education is very important for Migrant Domestic Workers whose known as the most Vulnerable workers, to improve our knowledge to depend themselves, to build confidence  to be able to speak out for our rights and to lift up our images as human and as any others workers who have the rights as workers. The classes have started on 7th April 2013 and will continue until March 2014, below are pictures during the classes. J4DW believes that education is the way forward to ease our isolation towards freedom from slavery to champions of human rights and workers' rights.

ESOL Metropolitan Class with Tutor Clare

IT Metropolitan Class With Tutor Serena

The 2nd British Council film project (ESOL NEXUS)

On the 7th April 2013 J4DW (Justice 4 Domestic Workers) have done the short shooting with British Council for the 2nd ESOL NEXUS film, to know how their English has improved, and to know the changes for their living and working condition since the 1st film, below are the pictures that we could captured during the shooting

Shooting time in the Red Lion square park, Holborn

Preparing before shooting

Break time after shooting in the cafe, Holborn 

Tate Modern and Showroom April 21 2013

This coming Sunday J4DW www.j4dw.org will be in Tate Modern for "Work like this: A public discussion around precarious labor, visibility and Domestic work"Work Like This: OFF SITE EVENT at Tate Modern and the Showroom http://www.theshowroom.org/participation.html?id=1334%2C1442 We are also invited to documentary film showing, "Night Cleaners" at Tate Modern after our event, Join J4DW, Tate Modern, The show Room and The Werker Magazine (Marc Roig Blesa Rogier Frederik Hendrik Delfos) This Sunday April 21, 2-5PM @Tate Modern!

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UPCOMING EVENT: .....................................................................................................................

• public discussion around precarious labour, visibility and domestic work OFF-SITE at Tate Modern, East Room Sunday 21 April, 14.00–17.00 Free, no booking required. Bringing together artists, activists, and the collective, Justice for Domestic Workers, this event will explore the relationship between domestic labour and artists' practice, specifically in relation to visibility and value. Presentations and discussion will look at how strategies of art production and distribution can inform and support social movements related to labour and visibility. Contributors are: Justice for Domestic Workers, Andrea Francke, and ‘Werker Magazine’ (Marc Roig Blesa and Rogier Delfos) This event is in collaboration with Tate Modern. Following the discussion there will be a screening of Nightcleaners by Berwick Street Collective in Tate Modern's Starr Auditorium.

Tate Modern

Bankside, SE1 9TG London, United Kingdom

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Strengthening J4DW's Course

The  Strengthening J4DW Training  with the management committee and working groups  of J4DW which will run the six months.It aims to specifically provide us with knowledge and skills to work professionally in the day to day basis administrative work of J4DW. The course has started on 7th April 2013, the picture below is during the course with Tutor Eiri Ohtani.