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)