CAREY JERNIGAN
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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.
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  • Home
  • One in Three
  • Crossing
  • Play
  • Stress
  • Shift Work
  • Pattern for Gartshore & Cowie
  • Ghost Barn
  • 18 Variations
  • Fugue
  • Gear Pattern
  • Arrival
  • One by One
  • Mobile Home
  • Old Friend
  • Happiness Chocolates
  • Just Call Me Jack
  • House Pile
  • Uncle Eddy
  • Abandoned Room
  • Contact
  • One in Three