PHOTOROMANCE Staging the sagas of our aspiration


April 29, 2008


As part of Temporary Agency, Chelsea space, London

in collaboration with Micropolitics Research Group



PHOTOROMANCE: The Workshop
1-5pm


"...Do you mean my 'real work' or 'what I do for money'?..."


Internships, work experience, job placements and voluntary invigilation are often seen as a step on the ladder towards professional life. Increasingly, however they are becoming a structural condition masking the crumbling of public culture as we knew it.
Passions, seduction, desires and betrayal all play a role in the experience of working for free. How do we survive and narrate the internship drama? Characters, wigs, speech bubbles, gestural tableaux: this photoromance shoot is a serious investigation in disguise. We will reflect upon what we learn from free labour and how we might stage our aspirations otherwise.


PHOTOROMANCE: The Party
Begins at 6:30pm

An evening of despondent dancing and joyful analysis.