This event is open to the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). Primary residents and members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner.

Led by feminist researcher and organiser Gráinne Charlton, Work, Inquire, Organise! explores the histories and possibilities of art workers resistance. This event is participatory and welcomes discussion throughout, especially facilitating residents’ discussions beyond their host art spaces. The session will be split into three parts:

Work
Breaking the romantic (or vulnerable) depictions of artists, this section of the talk discusses structural power and mobilisation of artist movements as workers. This will raise issues around gentrification, precarity, and solidarity.

Inquire
Building from consciousness-raising, this section of the talk explores the centrality of collective ‘inquiry’ in creating collective demands and movements. This will raise issues around working conditions, living conditions, and corporate power.

Organise
The final section of the talk is dedicated to mobilising resistance. This will raise issues around worker/renter rights, organising strategies, and collective power.

Photo: Gráinne Charlton

Gráinne Charlton is a feminist researcher and organiser based between Birmingham and Paris. Gráinne’s writing and organising centres ending: deportations, detention centres, and borders; fighting: precarity and corporate profit; and building: renters and workers’ rights, transnational organising, and political education.

This event will take place online via Zoom. Please contact your relevant host art space to book your place; Primary residents and members can book by emailing colette@weareprimary.org.