During this session, Text my Sister invites you to reflect on the politics of labour and other forms of organised togetherness, using writing as a form of collective engagement. We will explore how our individual and shared experiences of work shape our realities,
Through a process-based approach, this workshop opens up space for creative exploration and collective reflection. We begin with a reading session that complements the themes explored in our two film screening events. We will then host a collaborative writing exercise that uses fold-out posters designed during our residency as stationary paper, offering a tangible, creative tool for participants to engage with the themes of labour and community. Letter writing is the central part of this process, serving as a medium for offline, personal reflection and as a catalyst for collective thinking. Together, we will co-create a body of knowledge – one that connects our individual experiences of labour with the collective possibilities for reshaping how we work, communicate, and care for each other.
Text my Sister is founded on communication through text, and in this workshop, we will challenge and expand this mode of working together, considering how letter writing and collective engagement can be tools of resistance and reimagination. Designed as a multidisciplinary learning experience, the workshop takes an expanded social, cultural and political perspective on what both contemporary art and labour can be understood to be and seeks critical thinking and analysis. While the workshops examines histories of both contemporary art and labour/organised togetherness, it places a focus on processes of futuring, critically dwelling on possible futures of labour and organising and the role that artistic practice can play in the creation of those futures.

Reading list:
1. Dolly Parton, 9 to 5
2. Sophia Giovannitti, If we ‘do not dream of labor’, what do we dream of?
3. Rebecca Boswell, On Friendship
4. Peter Fischli and David Weiss (mural), How to Work Better (1991)