What dominates...all work processes which are performed in the mode of laboring is neither man’s purposeful effort nor the product he may desire, but the motion of the process itself and the rhythm it imposes upon the laborers.
—Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition, 1958.
Part interview, part discussion, part conversation, this panel is framed around In Time (the Rhythm of the Workshop), an exhibition of three films curated by Shannon Stratton at the Museum of Arts and Design, NYC in 2015. Comprised of works by artists Andreas Bunte, Daniel Eisenberg and Denis Côté, In Time focused closely on the role of gesture in late capitalism, and on the impact of labour on bodies. By considering the ‘choreography of fabrication’ in varied contexts, it encouraged reflection on the tempo of work, objects of labor as measures of time, and the ‘unexpected ways material becomes immaterial” (MAD, 2016). For this presentation, a brief introduction to the exhibition and films will be followed by a conversation amongst the curator, panelists, and audience members. Questions and discussion will consider choreographies of labour, particularly of emotional or invisible labour; the pace of late capitalism and its effect(s) on bodies human, non-human, cyborg; labour as an antagonym, both highly valued and regularly dismissed; and the (conflicted) roles of artists, scholars, and curators in challenging and perpetuating current regimes of labour and being.