Featuring the “OCCUPY WINDSOR DOCUMENTATION PROJECT” by Alana Bartol (Windsor ON); Collette Broeders (LaSalle ON); and “BREAK ROOM” by go home collective: Teresa Carlesimo (Windsor, ON) and Michael DiRisio (Amherstburg ON) and Special book launch for “Informal Gathering of Heart” a commemorative book of the Occupy Windsor experience by K. Whitehead, Doug MacLellan, and Paul Chislett – see here
Organized by the MayWorks Windsor 2012 Committee
Artcite collaborates with the MayWorks Windsor committee to develop a new and relevant activist themed exhibition for each MayWorks Windsor celebration, highlighting issues of labour and the Arts. Our 2012 exhibit features the Windsor ON collective go home’s installation “Break Room”; the “Occupy Windsor Documentation Project” and video histories of “Occupy Windsor” participants.
With the permission, support and participation of Occupy Windsor, Collette Broeders and Alana Bartol present “Occupy Windsor Documentation Project”, a multi-media installation that includes various artifacts from the Occupy Windsor camp, mixed-media drawings, video and sound. The exhibit examines the oral stories collected from the camp as well as the unique methods of communication used by Occupy Windsor and Occupy movements worldwide. Though this exploration, Bartol and Broeders evoke the power of nonverbal systems of communication that resonate within resistance groups as well as members of the wider community.
The show also features the booklet: “Informal Gathering of Heart”, with photos and text commemorating the OCCUPY WINDSOR winter 2011 camp by Paul Chislet, Doug MacLellan and K. Whitehead. see here.
“As more people in this region lose jobs and politicians answer with austerity, the Occupy movement taught us that it is possible for people to come together, live and work for the mutual benefit of all in the spirit of cooperation. Occupy Windsor stands as an example of not only resistance but of workable alternatives.” -Paul Chislett (Occupy Windsor)
See the website. Also Windsor photographer Douglas Maclellan’s opening reception photos
Teresa Carlesimo and Michael DiRisio (go home collective), presents their installation; “Break Room” – a typical workspace break room, constructed within the gallery: a room that is completely furnished and appears to be a fully functional break room, but without a door or entry way. Without an entrance the room will be physically unreachable, but visible through plexiglass windows We have created a break room as a place that exists only in the context of wage labour, yet is not a place of labour. Instead, it is a place for the time spent between labouring. It’s a non-place. A place that is often cold and inhospitable. A place that rarely offers the respite that is promised by a “break”. As well, by transforming a section of the gallery space into a break room, we are effectively transforming the surrounding area into a workspace.
See also the artists’ site here.
