Home-Work: doing the math

HOME-WORK: doing the math
A performance by Pam Hall
Monday, Jan. 19
10 a.m to 12 pm

All ages, Free

The home remains a site for many kinds of labour that is most often undertaken by women. Other household members — men, children, paid “housekeepers” — often contribute to this “home-work,” though conventional wisdom suggests that laundry, ironing, mending, shopping, food preparation, cleaning, childcare, garden care, decorating and even repairs and maintenance are still, for many, the domain of women.

Home-Work is a performance that will help us reveal the labour of keeping house — of home-making. The artist will construct a small, humble, hand-made house in the gallery that will carry and share the labour of others. Audience members are invited to “account” for their own home-work and share it with the artist as she “does the math” — inscribing the house with some of the hours of work invested in its making and keeping. Like all “houses,” this one will be transformed as it is marked by human labour.

Drop-in to the Kamloops Art Gallery between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 19 and join interdisciplinary artist Pam Hall in accounting for the labour of home-making.

— Contributed, Kamloops Art Gallery