A conversation between the founders of Artleaks platform as an example of an organization of artistic workers struggling against exploitation, together with the limitations which such coming together into an association necessarily implies, from the difficulty of union organizing of the so-called creative workers to the lack of political force that would press for the transformation of social relations.

SHIFTwork is the collective name for a series of commissioned performances which focused on the physical act and process of painting as a form of performance art. This catalogue documents the first collaboration, ‘Cathedral of Joy’, occurred with New York artist Fritz Welsh on a series of paintings in full view of the public whereby the gallery became a public studio revealing in real time and on continuous webcam transmission what is ordinarily the private practice of painting.

Article analysing how art approaches and resists the capitalist appropriation of power and creation. 

The author analyses several contemporary performances as examples of artistic critique of current ideological canons and power structures governing labour relations in the globalised capitalist production.

Article exploring the relationship between the critical categories ‘performance’ and ‘labour’ through the broader term ‘practice’ developed in Marx’s more mature writings.

Attempts to describe how artistic imagination can produce new situations, based on the potentials of the singular ‘body’ within its environment.

Terry O’Connor, Wendy Houston and Joe Kelleher give an insight into the working process of the collaborative project “Say the word and MOVE”, in which they explore relations between speaking and moving, language and movement.

Excerpt of video documents a live performance held in the summer of 1976. Super 8 film & video, colour, sound.

Work in progress footage of performance in 2013