By the Art Gallery of Burlington
The Art Gallery of Burlington’s upcoming exhibit is engaging in more ways than one: visitors are encouraged to interact with it as well as enjoy looking at it.
The Future of Work: Parallel Economies is an interactive exhibit that explores new forms of production and alternatives to the exploitative complexity of capitalism. The exhibit includes an indoor community garden where guests can harvest and exchange from, a maker station to create social justice inspired posters and buttons, and a cooperative Swap Market that revives the concept of a barter system.
Co-commissioned by MOCA Toronto and the Toronto Biennial of Art. Courtesy of Jeffrey Gibson Studio, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Roberts Projects, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., and Stephen Friedman Gallery
Installation views, MOCA Toronto.
Photo taken by: Jack McCombe
Visitors can enjoy artist Jeffrey Gibson’s mobile book structure to sit and read books about economic theory curated by Burlington Public Library. Guests can also view the screening of the film Coney Island Baby featuring a collective of Indigenous artists who explore their traditional and sustainable practices.
The Future of Work is a conversation platform to discuss and consider our current and previous concept of social and economic “normality.”
This exhibit opens on August 26 and runs until December 31.
