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The lecture performance “Does it pay to care?” focuses on different types of care work, such as nursing, sexual and reproductive labour. These types of work involve touch, closeness, and personal care and were traditionally relegated to women as a form of unpaid and invisible labour. The waning of the welfare state and the increasing commodification of life have led to a global increase in the number of people working in this grossly undervalued, feminised, stigmatised, hidden, poorly paid and often legally unregulated sphere of labour, which is part of the informal economy and therefore dangerous for workers. It is an expression of (global) gender, class, and racial inequalities. Despite its invisibility, however, it is essential to the functioning of society and the economy and to the maintenance of social processes. This noisy invisibility was the impetus for our curatorial investigation.
The lecture performance “Does it pay to care?” is based on the stories of eight narrators who examine the dilemmas of paid sexual work and the work of caregivers and cleaners from the perspectives of art, research, activism, and their own experience. The lecture-performance format gives equal footing to workers – lecturers, researchers, activists, and artists – whose work, skills, and experiences are differently valued and unequally socially accepted. Their main topic: (to whom) does it pay to care?
Authors and curators: Linn Julian Koletnik, Alja Lobnik, Lučka Neža Peterlin
Co-authors and performers: Lea Aymard, Valeria Graziano, Aigul Hakimova, Nika Korenjak, Rok Kravanja, Leja Markelj, Miša Močilnikar, Darja Zaviršek
Text: Linn J. Koletnik, Alja Lobnik, Lučka Neža Peterlin
Produced by: Maska Ljubljana
Producer: Nastja Minik Kotnik
Public relations: Urška Comino
Technical direction and space and light design: Igor Remeta
Graphic design: Niko Lapkovski
Co-production: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana
Financial support: The City Council of Ljubljana and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia
The lecture performance “Does it pay to care?” will take place in English and Slovene.
The event will be followed by a discussion with the performers in English and Slovene.
Moderated by Linn Julian Koletnik.
