Play (2016) was created as part of Patternmaker, an exhibition by Carey Jernigan & Julia Campbell-Such at the Workers' Arts & Heritage Centre (WAHC) in Hamilton, ON. The exhibition reflected on the personal and societal consequences of the changing pace of contemporary work:
"As traditional ways of making are replaced by rapid, computerized ones, our experiences of production and work change faster still. We respond to the rhythms of the technologies we work with; we adapt, we fight back, we play to pass the time. The pace at which we work is the pace at which we live."
Play is an articulated, child-size wooden mannequin, two 3D printed "prosthetics", and a pair of five-foot diametre wooden pulley wheels made using traditional patternmaking techniques from the late 1800s.
For Patternmaker, Play was accompanied by Pace, a compilation of interview clips and ambient workplace sounds that played through spun copper domes in the gallery. Interviewees were asked to reflect on the rhythms of their work days. The full interviews are archived here.
The show was also accompanied by a performance of Amanda Acorn's dance piece Multiform(s).
Some of the woodworking process behind the sculpture Play is archived here.
"As traditional ways of making are replaced by rapid, computerized ones, our experiences of production and work change faster still. We respond to the rhythms of the technologies we work with; we adapt, we fight back, we play to pass the time. The pace at which we work is the pace at which we live."
Play is an articulated, child-size wooden mannequin, two 3D printed "prosthetics", and a pair of five-foot diametre wooden pulley wheels made using traditional patternmaking techniques from the late 1800s.
For Patternmaker, Play was accompanied by Pace, a compilation of interview clips and ambient workplace sounds that played through spun copper domes in the gallery. Interviewees were asked to reflect on the rhythms of their work days. The full interviews are archived here.
The show was also accompanied by a performance of Amanda Acorn's dance piece Multiform(s).
Some of the woodworking process behind the sculpture Play is archived here.
