Ceramics Studio Co-op

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Tag: The Voice of Domestic Workers

  • The Voice of Domestic Workers

    The Voice of Domestic Workers

    New classroom display

    These pieces were made at the workshop with The Voice of Domestic Workers we c­­o-organised with Cubitt Gallery.

    The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and campaigning group for justice and rights for Britain’s tens of thousands foreign domestic workers that work for the wealthiest residents of London. Apart from providing support to individuals in difficult situation the group seeks to end discrimination and protect migrant domestic workers living in the UK by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare and legal advice.

    At the workshop we made and decorated simple terracotta pots, listened to the stories and shared a Malaysian rice cooked by Yasmin, one of the domestic workers. One can read group’s slogans and names of the participants on the pots that carry their presence and mood as a group. We are privileged to have met the group and to host their work in the studio while they are patiently waiting for it. We hope these pieces may inspire you making your own pottery and sculpture differently.

    Visit their website to find out more about their work and help us support them.

    www.thevoiceofdomesticworkers.com

    The workshop is a part of Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! curated by Louise Shelley, and is supported by Arts Council England and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.

  • Cubitt> Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! 18 Jan–24 Feb 2019

    We are delighted to participate in Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! in January 2019. Please see the copy of the information from Cubitt, and check out the special programme website for more information.

    Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid!

    Private View: Thurs 17 Jan 2019
    6.30–8.30pm

    Cultural Capital Cooperative Object #2 (CCCO#2) produced by artists Nikita Gale, Candice Lin, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nour Mobarak, Blaine O’Neill, and Patrick Staff, Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) and Ceramics Studio Co-op and events with COOP Fund and Cooperative Lunch #2 hosted by Cooperativas de Alimentos

    Open: 18 Jan–24 Feb 2019, Wed–Sun, 12–6pm

    Events:
    Cooperative Lunch #2 hosted by Cooperativas de Alimentos:  Sun 24, Feb 1–3pm
    COOP Fund: Sat 16 Feb, 3–5pm

    Structures That Cooperate reopens for 2019 with a second configuration of the space designed by Mexico City-based artist Clemence Seilles. It will host newly installed work in the gallery and an ongoing public programme under the title Get Paid!

    Structures That Cooperate: Get Paid! presents artworks, events and projects operating with politicised models of economy and organisation. These include Cultural Capital Cooperative Object #2 (CCCO#2) a cooperatively produced and owned film by produced by artists Nikita Gale, Candice Lin, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Nour Mobarak, Blaine O’Neill, and Patrick Staff amplified by the Black Obsidian Sound System (B.O.S.S) installed alongside works from the Ceramics Studio Co-op, London.

    In continuation of a format established in October, where Cubitt’s gallery is used for an extended schedule of events, commissions, research and exhibitions, Get Paid! will present work across several formats and timeframes

    For a 12-month period Cubitt will be licensing the CCCO#2 film as a process of dialogue and support of the Cultural Capital Cooperative group. CCCO#2 will be installed in the gallery for Get Paid! inviting Black Obsidian Sound System to amplify the sound of the film for the opening night. Black Obsidian Sound System is a collectively made and owned sound system established in the summer of 2018 with the intention of bringing together a community of queer, trans and non binary people of colour involved in art, sound and radical activism.

    After CCCO#2’s public installation in the gallery, the film will be available to view at Cubitt by appointment until December 2019, alongside a template of the CCC license agreement. This agreement will be made available as a free download from the Cubitt website as a resource for others, to be adapted and used in support of future cooperative art production.

    Into this context, Get Paid! invites another cooperative, Ceramics Studio Co-op an artist-run worker co-operative in south London. Ceramics Studio Co-op will present a selection of works for sale by its members and, as part of a longer term conversation, are working with The Voice of Domestic Workers towards the production of a new collaborative ceramic work for sale later in 2019.

    Ongoing collaborations include working with Clemence Seilles on the scenography of the gallery space, The Voice of Domestic Workers in residence, Schooling & Culture at AMSI and research with W.A.G.E.

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    Structures that Cooperate is a programme of projects that began October 2018 that talk to Cubitt’s context as an artist-run co-operative. It is a call to question default approaches to programming a gallery space, looking instead to collective formats, imaginaries and realities.

    Projects and artists who will feature in the 2019 programme include: Ain Bailey, Lucy Clout, Deborah Findlater, Aya Haidar with The Voice of Domestic Workers and Women for Refugee Women, Adelita Husni-Bey, Schooling & Culture with Arts and Media School Islington, Serena Lee, W.A.G.E, Cubitt’s Education programme and more to be announced.

    This exhibition is supported by Arts Council England and Outset Contemporary Art Fund.