study for a remnant factory
study for a remnant factory

study for a remnant factory

installation and performance, 2008

Study for a Remnant Factory explores the value and magnitude of an individual person's manual labour. In front of a backdrop of layers of ghostly dress images collected directly from the dresses of The Wardrobe Project during the printing process, I worked for two weeks cutting and sewing dresses, one by one, on a domestic sewing machine. Performed in Windsor, Ontario, a city defined by labour and manufacturing, the slow process of constructing the same dress over and over draws a stark contrast between the labour involved in manufacturing an item from start to finish and the fragmented reality of working on a factory assembly line.